Word: camachos
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...from Camacho. But they never forgot the capital. When Cardenas expropriated the oil companies in 1938, Aléman wired the 27 other Governors, hailing the move as "liberation of the country," and demanding support. They responded by electing him chairman of the President's Advisory Council of Governors. In 1939 he moved to the capital to manage Manuel Avila Camacho's presidential campaign against Juan Almazan. Mexicans recall the ruthless drive with which he carried through the election; to this day many insist that Almazan really won and was counted out by the Aléman organization...
...Avila Camacho made Aléman Secretary of Gobernacidn (Government), the key Cabinet post. But Aléman was not the ranking minister. That was the job of Maximino Avila Camacho, the President's rich, powerful brother, who as Minister of Communications was the big shot and profited to the scandal of all. Maximino hated Aléman, but he did not live long enough to hurt him. One day Maximino dedicated a new health center, went home and died...
...stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
...Mexico City, Cinemactor Jorge Veéez and his wife (by civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis...
Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...