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...quake was doubly disastrous because it came on the heels of the most damaging floods the country had seen in 30 years. President Luis Echeverría, who had toured flooded areas in Central Mexico only two days before the quake, visited the stricken villages to take charge of the relief work. Reconstruction, however, may have to be delayed. At week's end, torrential rains had resumed, threatening to topple buildings already weakened by the quake...
Although Washington stood firm, Mexican President Luis Echeverría decided to bow to the demands. "Mexico will accede," he said, "because the essential thing is to protect the U.S. consul general's life." (Only six months before, five Mexican guerrillas were released from prison after their comrades hijacked a domestic Mexicana airline flight and demanded that all be allowed to fly to Cuba.) Besides, as a Mexican official put it, "allowing the terrorists to kill the consul general would have been tragic for U.S.-Mexican relations. It would have cost Mexico dearly in American investment...
...Alvarez last week announced the resignation of the country's second most powerful figure: Mexico City Mayor Alfonso Martinez Dominguez, the former boss of Mexico's long-dominant Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). The capital's police chief, Colonel Rogelio Flores Curiel, also resigned. The resignations followed Echeverría's announcement that the city government would be investigated. The Falcons are believed to have been groomed at city expense as a secret army to embarrass and thwart Echeverria's reformist policies...
...Million Krakatoas. By his quick assertion of authority, Echeverría adroitly weathered his worst crisis since taking office six months ago. "The President has shown who is President of Mexico," said Novelist Carlos Fuentes. Echeverria, 49, also seemed to have won over many students, who have distrusted him since the 1968 Tlateloco massacre when he served as Interior Minister in the government that ordered in riot police and federal troops; their indiscriminate firing caused at least 33 deaths...
Since taking office, however, Echeverría has assiduously sought a dialogue with students. He has also pressed for social and economic reforms for Mexico's rural poor, who number nearly half of a population of 50 million. "There are a lot of unhappy politicians around who see the end in sight for their patronage deals and privileges," said a high government official last week. "They are a shortsighted lot and don't see that Mexico is a volcano, and if social justice is not instituted to bring those rural millions and urban poor into the economy, this...