Word: ernesto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sirens howling, a motorcycle escort whisked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines' Lincoln limousine through the gates of Mexico City's presidential residence, Los Pifios, one day last week. With Mexico's Federal District Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu tagging along, Ruiz Cortines was out to hang up an unofficial speed record for public-works dedications...
...close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting of the nation's capital (TIME, Aug. 27). None of the six is doing any public campaigning-contemptuously called futurismo in Mexico-but behind closed doors all are hard...
...have particularly wanted to impress was President Ernesto de la Guardia of Panama, currently pondering a U.S. request for Nike antiaircraft missile sites in his country. So far he has asked for more concessions (primarily, a greatly increased share of Canal receipts) than the U.S. is willing to pay. De la Guardia beamed at the smooth-running exercises last week and assured a press conference that continued U.S. operation of the Canal was "not even an issue here." But he said nothing about lowering his price on the Nike bases...
Tiburcio, the imaginary Mr. Everyman of Panama, who ordinarily dismisses a government economy drive as little more than whimsical propaganda, thoughtfully withdrew his tongue from his cheek last week. The first budget by Ernesto de la Guardia, the austerity-preaching new President...
Continental Defense. In Mexico City, chronic church-robbers Ernesto Ruiz, Enrique Diaz and Salvador Monroy assured police that they always knelt before looting a chapel, added that they feared no heavenly wrath because: "God is too occupied with European affairs to pay any attention...