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...President every six years in a cut-and-dried election. Some people might label it dictatorship. Mexicans call it "guided democracy," and by some alchemy the system does seem to operate as a sort of national consensus. Last week Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz marched to the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies to make his first state-of-the-nation address after nine months in office. His speech was a remarkable definition of Mexico's sense of stability, leadership and nationhood...
...loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters. Díaz Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify the ejido system. But he did promise loans to farmers for livestock, fertilizer and more farm implements...
...Coast Guard boarding party found three bullet-riddled bodies in the aft cabin. The body of Captain Rogelio Díaz, 38, was not on the bridge, but a trail of blood led over the side. Gone were Ramírez, Second Engineer Salomon Franco and Cook Gerald Davison-and the ship's 14-ft. dinghy...
Over the Side. The man was Ramírez, and under interrogation in Miami he admitted killing everyone on board the Seven Seas except Elwin and the cook, Davison. "They called me a Communist and a thief," he said, "so I shot them." He said that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain...
...then hurled the bodies of Díaz and Franco into the Straits and swung the ship toward Cuba. Two hours later, the diesel stopped. Ramírez set off in the dinghy. Inevitably, the Gulf Stream carried him back toward Miami...