Word: cedillo
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Twice during his career, El Sapo was able to kill to his heart's content, quite legally. He was an army private during General Saturnino Cedillo's rebellion of 1938. "I killed Cedillistas on sight," he remembers with satisfaction. Later, when Sinarquistas (local Fascists) rioted in León, he had the pleasure of working the rioters over with a machine gun. "Blood ran that day!" he recalls proudly...
Mexico's press reported Almazanismo dying in a flurry of blood and violence and trickery. Four Almazanistas said they had been arrested and tortured by Federal soldiers. More Almazán followers fled out of Rio Verde and San Luis Potosi to avoid persecutions of local caciques. Señora Higinia Cedillo Gonzales, who helped her brother, General Saturnino Cedillo, revolt and tried to do the same for Almazán, was reported kidnapped or murdered. Government men ransacked the house of Almazán's Provisional President General Hector F. Lopez...
...served in the War, Navy and National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...
...General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from swimming and riding. With his hazel eyes, ruddy cheeks, reddish mustache...
...much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...