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Manuel Avila Camacho, 43, was the Government candidate. Son of an obscure farmer in Puebla State, he was trained to be a bookkeeper but at the age of 17 rode away to a revolution. For the next 15 years, Camacho guessed right on every upheaval, said yes to every dictator, and so by the age of 32 was a major general...
Never a strategist, Avila Camacho won battle after battle with his tongue. In the Cristero rebellion of 1927, he walked unarmed into a saloon near Los Altos to meet the enemy chieftain. One hour later the pair walked out rubbing shoulders, the rebel cheerfully agreeing to lay down his arms. In Michoacan in 1929, he talked no less than twelve enemy generals into surrender...
...Camacho's pre-election backing embraced every loaded political weapon in Mexico-notably President Cárdenas and his junta, the Partida de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members...
...president, took advantage of the general about-face to try to make a little hay for the Cárdenas Party. Proposing that Mexico immediately negotiate a comprehensive political-economic-military defense pact with the U. S., he also suggested that the Government candidate for President, General Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger." Unable to keep pace with Mexican politics, bewildered students in Mexico City put on a pointless series of riots...
...intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling them morning and night with broomsticks until more effective weapons are forthcoming. In an election revolution, his troops might fight for Candidate Camacho, or maybe just replace him with Lombardo...