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With Government Candidate Avila Camacho and Independent Juan Andreu Almazan both claiming they had won the July 7 Presidential election, both preparing to take office, both promising a full-dress Congress to support them, the lid last week suddenly popped off Mexican politics...
...mourners were supporters of the anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho was indifferent to their threat. He was, he declared, "completely satisfied with the low number of dead and wounded among the 20,000,000 population of Mexico. I am taking into consideration that in the U. S. thousands of persons are killed or wounded when a railroad train is derailed...
...Juan Andreu Almazán, 49, had no visible organized support. But beneath the works of the Cárdenas machine he had a submerged popular following which, if the elections had been properly democratic, could have easily elected...
Once during the bloody Sunday afternoon 2,000 students paraded with a giant banner: Almazán IS PRESIDENT-and sang the stirring Mexican national anthem (less favored under the NEW Revolution than the Communist Internationale). Sadly Juan Andreu Almazán said: "I am moved to see the action of the people. How I would like to help them." Maybe he will one day. Sunday's shootings may have louder echoes when the Government publishes its election returns...
...face to try to make a little hay for the Cárdenas Party. Proposing that Mexico immediately negotiate a comprehensive political-economic-military defense pact with the U. S., he also suggested that the Government candidate for President, General Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger." Unable to keep pace with Mexican politics, bewildered students in Mexico City put on a pointless series of riots. And at Hermosilla pre-flip-floppists took...