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...campaign for the forthcoming election Führer Dietrich does not openly support either President Cárdenas' hand-picked candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposici...
...Succession. In the field are two candidates and a potential Putschist. Unofficial candidate of the Government is General Avila Camacho, who is not much of a general and not much of a strong man. Mexicans say he would probably be a stooge for Cárdenas, which Cárdenas refused to be for Strong Man Plutarco Elias Calles. Backed by Lombardo Toledano, the John L. Lewis of Mexico, General Avila is getting a big buildup. His stenciled name and face are on every available wall and sidewalk. Supported mostly by the Left, Candidate Avila talks Right...
...Revolutionary Party (which supports Cárdenas) and has promised peasant ownership of the land in place of the present collectivist system. He also has the backing of many business interests, would probably play ball with foreign business. A favorite game of the Almazanistas is to rip down Avila Camacho posters during the night, replace them with Almazan posters, which are in turn ripped down the next night and replaced by Avila Camacho posters. Camachistas and Almazanistas between them have accounted for an estimated 300 pre-election killings to date...
General Avila Camacho is the candidate of the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution), supports such Cardenas acts as the seizure of foreign-owned oil wells, and, although a dull campaigner, is most likely to win. General Almazan takes a line only slightly to the Right, agrees with his opponents about the oil wells, makes up for his lack of a program with lots of personal charm and chatty campaigning methods. Also likely to enter the race is one-eyed General Joaquin Amaro, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian who still had rings in his ears when he first...
When Candidates Avila Camacho and Andreu Almazán began their serious campaigning a few months ago, the pistoleros also began their shooting. Since then few days have gone by without clashes between camachistas and almazanistas. First, the rival gunmen got tangled up at Tacubaya, with one killed, two wounded. Next, at a Camacho meeting in Mexico City, Almazan men showed up uninvited and the result was one killed, 19 wounded. A few weeks later Almazán supporters riding on a train near Tlatilco were attacked by men shouting Viva Avila Camacho! Two were killed, "several" injured. An Almaz...