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...successor to Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...
...office of great power is something as new as World War II's close and friendly cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. One view was that Cárdenas was recalled because of pressure from labor and other groups opposing such politicos as the President's brother Maximino, Minister of Communications and Public Works. Another was that only Cardenas could dispel the apathy toward the war effort among the peasants. A third and far sounder view was that, in sincerely seeking to unite all the political forces of his country, Manuel Avila Camacho meant what he said about...
...good reason for discouraging troublemakers was that the President's older brother and chief supporter, General Maximino Avila Camacho, was on his way to Washington. Stocky, steel-hard General Maximino Avila Camacho holds no official post in Mexico. Onetime Governor of his native State of Puebla, he is now a gentle man of leisure. But he traveled last week with a semi-royal retinue of 14 people that included, besides his wife and children, a Senator, a translator from the Foreign Office, a newspaperman to handle publicity, a retired bullfighter...
Tough older brother Maximino Avila Camacho, boss of the important State of Puebla...
...Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with...