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...mannered Lazaro Cardenas there has been little place for them. But President Cardenas is to retire next November, and now campaigning for July's Presidential election are two military men with strong backing, plenty of money and no particular revulsion to a little shooting now & then-Generals Manuel Avila Camacho and Juan Andreu Almazan...
...General Avila Camacho is the candidate of the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution), supports such Cardenas acts as the seizure of foreign-owned oil wells, and, although a dull campaigner, is most likely to win. General Almazan takes a line only slightly to the Right, agrees with his opponents about the oil wells, makes up for his lack of a program with lots of personal charm and chatty campaigning methods. Also likely to enter the race is one-eyed General Joaquin Amaro, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian who still had rings in his ears when he first...
When Candidates Avila Camacho and Andreu Almazán began their serious campaigning a few months ago, the pistoleros also began their shooting. Since then few days have gone by without clashes between camachistas and almazanistas. First, the rival gunmen got tangled up at Tacubaya, with one killed, two wounded. Next, at a Camacho meeting in Mexico City, Almazan men showed up uninvited and the result was one killed, 19 wounded. A few weeks later Almazán supporters riding on a train near Tlatilco were attacked by men shouting Viva Avila Camacho! Two were killed, "several" injured. An Almaz...
...British liners Highland Patriot and Avila Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...
...have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...