Word: camachista
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...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...
Mockery of democracy was symbolized by what happened to President Cárdenas himself. He could not even vote at his own polls in Mexico City because a Camachista general had closed the booth to prevent 800 Almazanistas from voting...
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