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This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once...
First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...
...cabinet sworn in by President Ortiz Rubio last week contained only two important changes. Ex-Provisional President Fortes Gil retired to his old post as Secretary of the Interior, prime Cabinet post, and handsome General Juan Andreu Almazan was rewarded for his slaughter of 1,000 rebels at the Battle of La Reforma (TIME, April 15) with the post of Secretary of Communications and Public Works...
Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping...
Dashing, theatrically handsome, 37-year-old General Juan Andreu Almazan was the hero of a battle that seemed to have definitely broken the backbone of the revolution...