Word: echeverria
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...incident that is most embarrassing to the Mexican government, however, occurred last month when José Guadalupe Zuno, the 83-year-old father-in-law of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez and one of the most powerful men in Guadalajara, Mexico's second city, was kidnaped. Four armed men stopped Zuno's new blue Galaxie as it slowed to make a turn, disabled the chauffeur with Mace spray, and pulled Zuno into another car. His family warned that Zuno, a former governor of Jalisco State, and a political kingmaker, suffers from diabetes and might die unless he was given...
...Echeverria was criticized last year for supposedly encouraging kidnaping when he released 30 leftist prisoners in exchange for Leonhardy's life. He has since vowed never to give in to blackmail, a decision that he said he would not revoke, even in the case of his own father-in-law. "Neither in this nor any other case shall we accede to the demands of kidnapers," said Echeverria...
Irritating and embarrassing as they are, the guerrillas and terrorists are so far not a real Castro-like threat to Echeverria or to his party, the P.R.I...
...house. He covers the adobe with a mixture of sand and lime, making the walls white and smooth. The doors and windows are trimmed in bright blue. You ask him, as president of the town, what he thinks of the Mexican government. Smiling, he shrugs his shoulders. "Well, Senorita, Echeverria--he is not a bad man; but he does nothing for the campesino. The rich men have money and they pay him and, well--so he can afford to do nothing...
...share the thinking that has been expressed here--and President Echeverria has mentioned this many times--and I have said it in my country. There we struggle for changes within the framework of bourgeois democracy, with much bigger difficulties in our case--the Judiciary, Parliament and the Executive. The workers who elected me are the Government; we control one part of the Executive power, we are a minority in the Congress. The Judiciary system is autonomous and our Civil Code is 100 years old. If I don't criticize the judicial system while at home, I am hardly going...