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Word: junta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Two-Party System | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Camacho's pre-election backing embraced every loaded political weapon in Mexico-notably President Cárdenas and his junta, the Partida de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: An Age of Trickery | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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