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...shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
...Mexico City, Cinemactor Jorge Veéez and his wife (by civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis...
Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
Which Bandwagon? In the thunderous days of President Lázaro Cárdenas, Lombardo had armed his workers, organized the Workers' Administration to run the railroads, bossed the left-wing majority in Congress. Under moderate President Avila Camacho he was stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership. Within Mexico he now badly needs prestige. Both C.T.M. (the Mexican labor movement) and C.T.A.L. have lost strength because they have been so doggedly Stalinist. Possibly Lombardo may now be trying to recoup by walking away from the party line...
Mexicans saw the best show since Paracutin.* In the steel-blue air above the lofty capital, a group of 27 U.S. Superfortresses glinted in the bright, winter sun. Jet fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...