Word: lombardos
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...Dark-suited politicos and tan-jacketed pistoleros (gunmen) listened intently while the party changed its name to Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The delegates plumped for votes for women, and did not laugh out loud when the outgoing president called for a "crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...
...Lombardo Toledano's tribute to Conservative Aleman, ex-Minister of the Interior, was a piece of conspicuous hypocrisy. The two are no friends: Aleman had hoped to shake Lombardo Toledano. But because Lombardo Toledano liked to be with a winner, and because Aleman needed radical support, the hypocrisy would continue. Aleman would be boss and the party's trend to the right would continue...
Into the mahogany-paneled office of Mexican Foreign Minister Francisco Castillo Nájera marched dry, gravel-voiced U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith. What, asked Messersmith, about the charges of Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano that "certain U.S. firms" were smuggling arms to the Sinarquistas, Mexico's clerical fascists? At week's end, the reply: "The Mexican Government does not . . . support the statements of Lombardo Toledano...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
...this time Lombardo Toledano had gone too far. When he failed to back up his charges, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho publicly disavowed him. There had been no "Yankee intervention...