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What did Trujillo stand to gain by playing with the Communists? Locally, the appearance of any new party aided his frenetic efforts to make dictatorship look like democracy. And internationally, he could count on some support from the Communists who control labor unions. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's C.T.A.L. (Latin American Workers' Federation) had taken in Trujillo's fake labor unions last year, was expected to give him a fresh boost of some kind any minute. Already the strong, communist-dominated Cuban Federation of Labor had promised to send delegates to Trujillo's Dominican Labor Congress...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...
Alemán well knows that all this packs a wad of political dynamite. Ex-President Cardenas could fan up hot opposition if the deal smacked of surrender. Soviet-grooved labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whose powerful Confederation of Mexican Workers recently lost the oil workers' union, might yell "foreign imperialism." The mass of inflammable Mexicans, who associate "Standard" and "Shell" with other indignities like the shelling of Veracruz, might suffer an attack of spontaneous combustion...
...Lombardo, Gibraltar of the dance bandsmen, became an airline operator for Manhattan commuters, promised that his Long Island Airlines (4 Grumman Widgeons) would run 19 round trips a day for the hurried & well-heeled, beginning next week...
...could take his family with him, settle down and send his children to U.S. schools. But in Mexico, despite a new agreement to send 54,000 braceros north for this year's U.S. harvest, there is agitation to halt further export of labor. Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano asserted that Mexico itself needs the braceros. Others argued that this export of Mexican labor would lower production of Mexico's foodstuffs. There were other implications. During the war Canuto and his comrades earned $280,000,000 in the U.S., a factor in the current Mexican inflation...