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...been sentenced for a previous attempt on Obregon. A priest, Father Jose Jimenez, also serving a term, for complicity in the Obregon murder, performed the ceremony. Fortnight ago, the pressure of popular opinion and the hard work of her previously released husband induced new President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through the prison gates. A vindicated martyr, at 49 more bloomingly plump than ever, she drove with her husband...
Compromise. Behind this happy front tangled the horns of forces that some day might grow bigger than Avila Camacho. Avila Camacho has surrounded himself with a coterie of military and political strong men. Most important among his brawn trusters...
Tough older brother Maximino Avila Camacho, boss of the important State of Puebla...
These are the machine bosses of Mexico, tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...
...Avila Camacho also realized last week that he would not be President were it not for the fact that Lázaro Cárdenas had backed him, that the extreme left wing had put their machines behind him and their machine guns in front of him. So in last-minute dickering Avila Camacho agreed to form an interim Cabinet, with several holdovers from the Cárdenas regime. It looked as if for the time there would be a government of compromise...