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...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 wisdom, but the result has been to ignore a fief the size of West Virginia, and to have little effect on a university that calls itself the second oldest* in the New World...
...Communist as state Governor last June. But many lesser officials are Cardenas supporters and strongly proCommunist. Why not? The Russians have been busy in Michoacán for years, and their influence spreads from back-country schoolhouses, where maps of Russia outnumber maps of Mexico, to the capital of Morelia, where the Russian Institute wields far more influence than the U.S.-supported American-Mexican Cultural Institute...
...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...
...dedication ceremony in Morelia last week, all was unexpectedly quiet. A group of 100 dignitaries marched in, stood under the mural, and marched out again without a word. Small groups of students and teachers trickled in to look, left to think it over before saying much. Siqueiros seemed disappointed that no riot had broken out, added hopefully: "The students in the university are progressive. They will like it, but wait until outsiders see it." Just to make sure, Siqueiros planned to address a mass meeting in Morelia to explain his mural, had friends plaster reproductions all over Mexico City...