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Lighting a Path. Other Latin American Presidents get more of the world's attention. Mexico's Diaz Ordaz administers a prosperous, rapidly industrializing nation. Venezuela's Raul Leoni is pumping his country's vast oil wealth into impressive reforms; Argentina's Arturo Illia is struggling with inflationary troubles in the best-fed nation in Latin America; and Brazil's Humberto Castello Branco seems to be starting his gigantic country back toward order after toppling a ruinous leftist regime. But there is genuine excitement in Peru. What is going on there under Bela...
...Fundamental Task. The fiesta mood was well founded. Of twelve Presidents who have taken office since Mexico's 1910 revolution, Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like...
...Diaz Ordaz' Cabinet appointments suggested that the tough, down-to-earth President intends to handle that task with skill and imagination. His line-up boasts ten lawyers, four engineers, two doctors, two generals, a colonel, an accountant and a professor. In two key nominations, the new President reappointed Finance Minister Antonio Ortiz Mena, who is responsible for sustaining record economic growth along with a stable peso (121 to the dollar), and for Foreign Minister picked Antonio Carrillo Flores, who as Ambassador to Washington since 1959 had earned the respect of the State Department and the enmity of Mexico...
Solidarity First. The choice of Carrillo Flores, plus reports that Diaz Ordaz detests Fidel Castro, was taken by observers as an indication that Mexico may in time sever relations with Cuba, which, alone among Latin American nations, it persists in recognizing. Diaz Ordaz is unlikely to break with Cuba in the near future, however, lest he be accused of repudiating López Mateos...
Nonetheless, Mexico's new President took pains to dispel any illusion that he will promote a Latino form of Gaullism that would seek to build nationalist prestige at the expense of hemispheric solidarity. Said Diaz Ordaz, "It is unfair to Mexico to be pointed at as wishful of becoming the leader of Latin America. It aspires to be just another member in the group that joins its efforts for common improvement...