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...Mexico City, before dawn one morning last week, 34-year-old Captain Gabriel Avila Camacho stopped for breakfast at Wimpy's, a hot-dog tavern on the Avenida Oaxaca, near the U.S. Embassy. He was on his way to Texcoco, 25 miles away, where he was building a factory. Gabriel is the youngest of four Avila Camacho brothers. His older brother, Manuel, is President of Mexico...
According to the account which he gave afterwards, he was sitting there, eating his breakfast, when a young man he had never seen before came in. The young man took one look at Gabriel Avila Camacho, drew a gun and cried: "I've been looking for you!" Then he began to beat Captain Avila Camacho about the head with the butt of his pistol. Young Avila Camacho seized the gun, turned it on his assailant, shot him dead. Then he drove away...
With these words, endorsed by a vote of approval in Mexico's Congress, the new administration of President Manuel Avila Camacho made it clear that the long-awaited mutual-defense pact between Mexico and the U. S. will soon be concluded. In spite of some opposition from the press and public, last week even the left-wing Mexican Federation of Labor (CTM) approved the administration's program of continental defense...
...anniversary of Mexico's expropriation of foreign-owned oil properties, celebrated in Mexico as a national holiday. Usually an excuse for demonstrations against Yankee imperialism, the day passed without serious incident this year. Workers paraded in the great square outside the National Palace, while inscrutable President Manuel Avila Camacho stood on the balcony with a guard of honor, waving his hand, smiling with the slightly grim air of a man who wanted no more nonsense...
...good reason for discouraging troublemakers was that the President's older brother and chief supporter, General Maximino Avila Camacho, was on his way to Washington. Stocky, steel-hard General Maximino Avila Camacho holds no official post in Mexico. Onetime Governor of his native State of Puebla, he is now a gentle man of leisure. But he traveled last week with a semi-royal retinue of 14 people that included, besides his wife and children, a Senator, a translator from the Foreign Office, a newspaperman to handle publicity, a retired bullfighter...