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Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...Mexico's leaders are white men. Calles is the illegitimate son of an unknown and a peasant woman. Ortiz Rubio is reputedly three-quarter Spanish, one-quarter descendant of Michoacan Indian kings. President Rodriguez is a halfbreed, speaks Yaqui fluently. Both Cardenas and Amaro are pure Indian. Observers have long noted the virility of the Mexican Indian blood, the emergence of an Indian dynasty in Mexican politics...
...locality" but actually administered to ''eliminate [the Church] gradually from the republic." Of the many State laws limiting clergy (the latest provides 24 churches and 24 priests for the million-odd inhabitants of the Federal District of Mexico City-TIME, Jan. 4). the Pope cites those of Michoacan (one priest for 33,000 faithful), Chiapas (one for 60,000) and Veracruz (one for 100,000). This "unheard-of persecution," exclaims Pius XI, "differs but little . . . from the one raging within the unhappy borders of Russia. . . ." What to do? The Holy Father counsels Mexican Catholics to obey...
Confidential Engineer. The Hoover of Mexico was born at Morelia, capital of the State of Michoacan in 1877 of a rich, aristocratic family who trace their descent back to 1545. He graduated with an engineer's degree from the University of Mexico, entered the Army, was gazetted Captain in 1911, Brigadier General in 1920. "The late President Carranza," writes one Mexican historian, "frequently employed him [Ortiz Rubio] on engineering work of a confidential nature and also for strategic enterprises...
...appointed Governor of his home state, Michoacan, in 1923 Minister to Germany, in 1925 Ambassador to Brazil, at which time he was dean of the Mexican Diplomatic Corps. Returning to Mexico he announced that he would no longer use the title "General," and much was made during the recent campaign of the fact that Mexico was electing a civilian president. In certain states where the "transition in idealism" was feared to be incomplete, however, handbills were issued extolling the merits of "Señor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Engineer & General...