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...Manuel Avila Camacho, 43, was the Government candidate. Son of an obscure farmer in Puebla State, he was trained to be a bookkeeper but at the age of 17 rode away to a revolution. For the next 15 years, Camacho guessed right on every upheaval, said yes to every dictator, and so by the age of 32 was a major general...
...president, took advantage of the general about-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...
...campaign for the forthcoming election Führer Dietrich does not openly support either President Cárdenas' hand-picked candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposici...
...Succession. In the field are two candidates and a potential Putschist. Unofficial candidate of the Government is General Avila Camacho, who is not much of a general and not much of a strong man. Mexicans say he would probably be a stooge for Cárdenas, which Cárdenas refused to be for Strong Man Plutarco Elias Calles. Backed by Lombardo Toledano, the John L. Lewis of Mexico, General Avila is getting a big buildup. His stenciled name and face are on every available wall and sidewalk. Supported mostly by the Left, Candidate Avila talks Right...
...Mexican Revolutionary Party (which supports Cárdenas) and has promised peasant ownership of the land in place of the present collectivist system. He also has the backing of many business interests, would probably play ball with foreign business. A favorite game of the Almazanistas is to rip down Avila Camacho posters during the night, replace them with Almazan posters, which are in turn ripped down the next night and replaced by Avila Camacho posters. Camachistas and Almazanistas between them have accounted for an estimated 300 pre-election killings to date...