Word: gilberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama colony, they are working round the clock to supply Belém with food. Outside Manaus. others have turned cleared jungle into lush truck gardens. Amazonas Governor Gilberto Mestrinho says that the Japanese are exactly the kind of settlers the Amazon needs to build the future. "They don't cry for help every time they break an ax handle," he says. "They are not afraid to work...
...arid Sonora state, just south of the U.S. border, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz stood in the hot sun one day last week, read aloud a decree that expropriated a huge chunk of U.S. -owned property - the 400,000-acre Cananea Ranch. As thousands of peasants, swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared...
...GILBERTO FLORES MUÑOZ, 55, is the toiling, famously honest Minister of Agriculture. Flores Muñoz directed Ruiz' 1952 campaign, has since cracked down on corruption and launched ambitious new projects in his department. He is also a tub-thumping politician...
Ever since the U.S. announced in February that it would begin selling surplus cotton on the world market. Mexico's leftist Economy Minister Gilberto Loyo, onetime professor of economics and a longtime ringleader of the anti-U.S. faction in the Cabinet, has been scratching around for a good, sharp reprisal. He feared that if the U.S. went through with its plan to double exports (to 5,000,000 bales), the floor would fall from under the Mexican crop, which last year earned about $190 million, almost a third of the country's foreign credits. Last week...
...agriculture, which Ruiz Cortines and his eager, able Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz (TIME. Aug. 1) have emphasized with increased loans, irrigation appropriations and fertilizer plants, the President was able to report a 20% increase in production and alltime record yields of Mexico's basic export crops, coffee and cotton...