Word: michoac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolution is fought by flesh and blood men, not by saints, and every revolution ends with the creation of a new privileged class. I assure you that if I had not been a man able to take advantage of his breaks, I would still be scratching corn-rows in Michoacán, and just as my father was, I would be satisfied...
...style capitalism might already be dead, to judge by the absence of any official U.S. presence in the state. "We're not too much up to date in Michoacán," admits U.S. Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, who has yet to set foot there after nearly two years in Mexico. The burned-out American Institute has been rebuilt, but it is classified as "B Grade" by the U.S. embassy. The U.S. attitude seems to be that greater emphasis would only serve to provide a larger target for Morelia's Communists to throw rocks at. This may be practical...
...University of Santo Domingo, founded in 1538, is the oldest. Michoacán was founded...
...lessons, lectures, movies and a well-stocked Spanish-language library, where citizens can read magazines describing the U.S. as a "three-headed monster that thinks on Wall Street, roars in the Pentagon and brays in the White House." The state's biggest and noisiest newspaper, La Voz de Michoacán, shrills away in Cardenas' best gringo-baiting style. No wonder that last year, after a visit to Washington, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, spent 25 minutes with President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, then hopped down to Morelia for lengthy conferences with local Reds...
Communist penetration is most evident at Morelia's University of Michoacán. By conservative estimate, about 25% of the 7,500 students are Communist in everything but card. Michoacán recently sent a dozen students off to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, and two years ago, during the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion, rioting students burned the American-Mexican Institute. By no coincidence, two members of the Russian embassy had traveled from Mexico City to Morelia just before the riots...