Word: camachos
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...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...this time Lombardo Toledano had gone too far. When he failed to back up his charges, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho publicly disavowed him. There had been no "Yankee intervention...
...Mexico was to have the first free election of its history in July, 1946, it would be up to President Manuel Avila Camacho to enforce it. In his annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...
...this Cincinnatus, gesturing plough-ward, sent Mexican politics into a storm of conjecture. As long as Cárdenas stayed in the Cabinet of President Manuel Avila Camacho, he would be endorsing the Administration and its political machine. Outside, ploughing or not, he would be free to throw his weight around in next year's presidential election...
...term (1934-40), Cárdenas influenced the presidential election, but did not impose a candidate on the nation. Now Avila Camacho reportedly was trying to impose Miguel Alemán, former Minister of the Interior. Mexicans concluded that Cárdenas' hatred of imposition might be the key to his resignation...