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...spectators, no Al-mazanístas appeared and the Congress proceeded without disturbance. Amid cheers the Chamber President announced that the electoral college had been legally installed. Then a new Chamber President was elected and a seating committee was appointed to assign no out of 170 Deputy seats to Avila Camacho men. The Senate chose a similar committee to seat 58 claimed Camachista Senators...
...many Mexican politicos the Presidential election on July 7 had decided nothing. Both Government Candidate Manuel Avila Camacho and Oppositionist Almazán claimed victory and each faction had announced that it would install a Congress, which as an electoral college would pass on the validity of its own election and on Sept. 1 proclaim its candidate President...
Installation Day arrived and Mexico City prepared for trouble. Picked squads of sharpshooters kept vigilance atop the brownstone building of the Chamber of Deputies. Others watched from adjoining housetops and armed peons guarded streets or careened through the city in trucks, shouting "Viva Avila Camacho!" Pistoleros prowled the Chamber and Senate corridors, and many Camachista Deputieselect appeared unshaven and disheveled for the meeting, having slept in the Chamber Building to avoid being sniped or kidnapped...
...Mexican air that Azcarraga wants to keep tidy has many peculiar aspects. Politics provides one of them. During the recent election General Juan Andreu Almazan was never permitted to fling a single amigos mios into a microphone, although his chief rival. General Manuel Avila Camacho, used XEFO, the 5,000-watt official outlet of Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution. Although Don Juan complained that XEFO was breaking the law prohibiting any station from broadcasting political controversies, the station management pointed out with fine Latin logic that as long as it restricted its mikes to Camacho and withheld them...
...means clear that Candidate Almazan was "resentfully repudiated," except by the political machine. Because the political machine of PRM, CTM and Agrarians declared for Avila Camacho does not mean that they went down the line for him. Many observers believe that a good part of the labor vote deserted Avila Camacho on election day. The Agrarian Party to which Reader Fishback refers is allied...