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...this takes some doing, for the men around Avila Camacho personify all the varied extremes of Mexican politics...
...successor to Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...
...zaro Cárdenas returned to the Government as Minister of National Defense when Mexico entered the war. His revolutionary, agrarian reforms have been modified under Avila Camacho, but in the main they survive. Busy with war work, Cárdenas maintains his mystical quiet, seems unperturbed when his leftist supporters scream that some of his pet projects have been butchered...
High Hopes. For six years (1934-40) before Avila Camacho brought moderation into Mexican politics, Lazaro Cardenas spread revolutionary fire & brimstone over the land. Cardenas distributed over 45,000,000 acres of land to the peasants. With the backing of labor and the Indian peasantry, which still worship him, he built up the first socialist state in the Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho...
Where Cárdenas meant upheaval Avila Camacho meant the sun and the wind, which would heal wounds and quiet a torn land. Mexico was sick of being pulled leftward by Communists, rightward by Fascists. To deeply religious Mexicans, Avila Camacho stood for the middle way, the return to quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente...