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Three minutes of ceremony had made Manuel Avila Camacho President at last -after many months of anxious battle. The story of how he came to the Presidency is one of the weirdest in all the fantastic history of Mexican politics. Avila Camacho, a conservative soldier, was imposed on the Mexican people by the Government of Lázaro Cárdenas, a liberal idealist who picked Avila Camacho because he was his old War Minister and seemed to be the strongest man for the job. He was chosen last July 7 in an election which mocked democracy-in which both...
...gradually Avila Camacho caught hold. He did so by playing a master game of politics, left against right and middle against both. He alienated the Almazán capitalistic following by claiming Almazán's program for his own, and he neutralized the atheistic Government position on religion by declaring himself a believer. But he also caught hold by being the Mexican version of a good...
...Mexican brush, the Señor Henry Wallace saw signs of the event for which he had made his first crossing of the Rio Grande. Painted on the rock cuts near Tamazunchale (an old Huasteca Indian name pronounced by gringos Thomas & Charlie) were huge letters: TODO MEXICO CON AVILA CAMACHO -All Mexico with Avila Camacho...
...Embassy by a side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling a chant, which gradually grew to not "Viva Wallace," not "Viva Avila Camacho," but "Viva Almazán." This was a crowd of supporters of the defeated Presidential candidate, protesting U. S. recognition of Avila Camacho...
...Mexico last week. The U. S. had sounded the end of both, appointing Vice President-elect Henry Agard Wallace as "special representative with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" to the Presidential inauguration in Mexico City Dec. 1 (see p. 14). When President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho takes office on that day with the blessing of the U. S., retiring President Lazaro Cárdenas' revolutionary Six-Year Plan will be over, the promised revolt of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán will be left as flat as a tortilla...