Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing...
After stopping the night on one of these trips with a young Mexican owner of some 50,000 acres, President Cárdenas invited his host to accompany him in riding over the estates. Presently they clattered up to some still-smoking hovels and a group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host...
Such is the patriarchal quality of Lázaro Cárdenas' radicalism. He is no more a Marxian Socialist than was King Arthur or Robin Hood. He is a purely Mexican radical and has no particularly high opinion of Leon Trotsky to whom he has given haven...
...Year Plan. "Land to the Peasants" was one slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was also the main point of the present Mexican Constitution and of the Mexican Agrarian Law adopted in the same year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were...
...Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which today sprout half-completed in all parts of Mexico. Education was stressed to teach peons, accustomed for centuries to kiss the hand of local Mexican bigwigs, to become upstanding armed collectivists...