Word: camachos
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...grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed his official blessing on General Manuel Avila Camacho as his successor...
...second Congress met in secret, duly proclaimed itself legally elected, and two days later declared General Juan Andreu Almazán the next President. To clinch its claims it went even further. Finding Cárdenas in violation of the Constitution for "using public force to impose Avila Camacho and by rendering his last address before a congress of usurpation," it named its own substitute, General Hector F. López, to fill out the remainder of his term...
...Almazánista movements. New troops were reported on their way to reinforce the 10,000 already in the capital. Graciano Sanchez had declared 80,000 trained members of his National Confederation of Peasants were ready to take up their rifles in support of Cárdenas and Avila Camacho...
...rdenas leaves office in December. Almazánista leaders were hurriedly subpoenaed, ordered to appear before the First District Criminal Court of Mexico City on charges of sedition and "criminal provocation." The Almazánistas countered by preparing written declarations to be presented at the hearings instead. Outsmarted, the Camacho headquarters hastily resumed its former position, declaring: "The Almazánistas may call the people to rebellion until doomsday without receiving any answer...
...merely a kitchenette Cabinet (see cut, p. 40), waiting for the signal from the boss. The General himself, whom many U. S. businessmen would like to see in the Presidency because of his anti-expropriationism, was evidently waiting to see which way the cat would jump in Washington. Camacho has boasted that he will dine in the White House some time this month-and Washington has denied it. If he does, it will probably mean the end of Almazánismo...