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...incident which has received the most attention was the arrest of twenty allegedly North Korean trained Mexican revolutionaries for plotting the government's overthrow. The uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country...
...background of the massive demonstrations in Mexico City preceding the 1968 Olympics and the massacre that ended them. At one time, an estimated half-million persons were in the city's streets demonstrating against the government. On October 2 troops under the command of then Minister of the Interior Echeverria suddenly opened fire on demonstrators, killing more than 500 in what had the appearance of a highly organized ambush. After the "2 de Octubre Massacre" virtually all open Mexican radical activity ceased. From it, Echeverria gained his reputation as a master of political repression...
...Echeverria's role in Mexican politics is complex. On social and economic issues he is reputed to be a leftist. Echeverria is opposed to the sacrificing of agrarian interests to the program of rapid industrialization that has been government policy. Although it is still too early to see if his administration will be able to fulfill its promises. Echeverria has pledged to have legislation enacted that would substantially help Mexican factory workers and campesinos. There is every indication that he is sincere in this and will be successful. PRI, the party that selected him to be president, is nearly without...
Into the Desert. The father of eight, Echeverria is a strong disciplinarian with a puritanical streak. He made it clear last week that he would not tolerate a repetition of the Mexico City student uprisings that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. Echeverria was Minister of the Interior under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz when those riots erupted: at least 33 people were shot to death and 500 wounded by police and soldiers. Campus unrest could well plague Echeverria throughout his six-year term, particularly with 150 people still in prison as a result of the 1968 riots...
Even so, he seems determined not to be deflected from his top priority. On the first full day of his presidency, Echeverria ordered plans to be drawn up for the incorporation of Mexico's farmers into the social security system. At week's end he headed off to the desert regions of north central Mexico to launch a program for rehabilitation of one of the country's poorest areas. The real revolutionary, he had said in his inaugural address, is the upright public servant and the honest citizen, rather than the "dreamer of revolutions, the anarchist...