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...From Mexico there leaked out a story of a concession of 250,000 acres of land leased for five years by the Mexican Government to Compania Mexicana Veracruzana for the exploration and exploitation of oil. The concession lay between the towns of Jalapa and Misantla...
...miles from the rich Poza Rico fields, had been rejected as not worth bothering about. Furthermore, it was reported that the lease was signed by Modesto C. Rolland, who is sub-secretary of the Ministry of Economy, who was president and is still thought to be an officer of Mexicana Veracruzana. But the shocker was that Cia. Mexicana Veracruzana was found to be controlled by La Laguna Co., which is owned by Pacific Petroleum Co., which is owned by Kobe Petroleum Co., which is owned by the House of Mitsui, which supplies oil to the Japanese Navy...
...stated: "To elect anyone besides Camacho required a miracle. . . ." Wouldn't a little horse sense reveal that it would take a miracle to overcome the following? "Camacho's pre-election backing embraced . . . Cardenas and . . . the Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the CTM, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members." Also . . . the Agrarian party which boasts more than a million members and which also declared for Camacho. A little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote...
...mourners were supporters of the anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho was indifferent to their threat. He was, he declared, "completely satisfied with the low number of dead and wounded among the 20,000,000 population of Mexico. I am taking into consideration that in the U. S. thousands of persons are killed or wounded when a railroad train is derailed...
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...