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Although two good crop years and a record tourist influx have contributed to the boom, it would have been impossible without a revival of confidence in Mexican business circles. Chief architect of the confidence has been hardheaded Treasury Secretary Antonio Carrillo Flores, whose policy of reduced government intervention in business slowed down and then reversed the flight of capital that resulted from post-devaluation jitters in 1954. Nobody knows better than Economist Carrillo Flores that there are still bad spots in the Mexican economy. Antiquated labor laws hamper development of the textile industry, for example, and Mexican agriculture is still...
...economic situation is by no means as bad as such drastic action implies. Its cash dollar reserves still exceeded the $200 million mark, and it has not even touched its $100 million emergency credits with the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. Mexico's Treasury Secretary Antonio Carrillo Flores insisted last week that within the national economy, affairs are "generally satisfactory...
Meat can shorten a man's life, warned Health Minister Ramon Carrillo last week in a speech to 4,000 fellow Argentines. With evangelistic fervor, Carrillo urged them to eat less meat and more vegetables, and to persuade other citizens of the Republic of Beef to do the same. The occasion was a government-sponsored conference on "Rational Eating." Officially, its purpose was to improve Argentines' health by educating them to "modify negative eating habits"; actually, the conference was another effort to relieve Argentina's beef shortage...
...problem is to export more beef to pay for essential imports without making the beef-loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...
...Union of Workers and Employees of the Food Industry cabled a request to Pope Pius XII to canonize Evita. ¶ Minister of Public Health Ramon Carrillo ordered a 220-lb. candle, the height of Evita (5 ft. 5 in.), to be installed in the ministry and lighted for an hour on the 26th day of every month (the day Evita died). Carrillo thought the candle would last 100 years or more. ¶ Schoolkids got prizes for poems and essays praising Evita. They were also told that she "got sick because she kissed the ill, the lepers, the consumptives." ¶ Carlos...