Word: lazaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search of the much-touted, often-postponed Mexican Revolution of 1940, correspondents last week began painfully trekking down to Chiapas, the primitive, mountainous State adjoining Guatemala. Previous Almazan revolutions have had substance chiefly in reports telephoned to Mexico City, presumably by nerve-warring Almazanistas. But this time President Lazaro Cardenas refused to accept assurances from the Governor of Chiapas, General Antonio Rios Zertuche, that the Governor had no knowledge of an up rising. He was ordered by the President to leave Chiapas at once and take over as Governor of Sonora, at the extreme opposite end of Mexico, adjoining Arizona...
...City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern Mexico were so insignificant that President Lazaro Cárdenas could tour through the troubled areas all week without danger...
Last week, in real Mexico, Independence Day passed and nothing very much happened. President Lazaro Cardenas went to the village of Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato State, stood before a microphone and roared the historic Grito de Dolores (Shout of Independence)-Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, viva la Independencia-which is Mexico's equivalent of the Confederacy's Rebel Yell. Then he made a speech. "Some people are trying to cause a rebellion in Mexico and entice the Mexican people away from the ways of peace," said the President. "An examination of the international situation will cause...
...travesty of democracy itself. No Government has ever suffered an electoral defeat. Dictatorial Presidents have either prolonged their own terms by changing the constitution or elected their own straw men with straw votes-or been assassinated, overthrown, exiled or otherwise forcibly liquidated. In the last election the approved candidate, Lazaro Cárdenas, received 1,090,000 votes, while his two opponents received 18,000 and 10,000 respectively...
Election day, Sunday, dawned bright, and church bells called the faithful to Mass. They prayed that Lazaro Cárdenas' promise of a fair election might be fulfilled151;but their prayers were not even finished before the promise was shattered. The PRM flying squadrons took over polls, even flagrantly established some in their own headquarters. At ancient Convento Vizacaines, Camachistas seized the polls, Almazanistas drove them off, Government soldiers drove them off and restored the booth to the favorite son. Camachistas foisted Camacho ballots on illiterate Almazán followers and made them mark them...