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...tropics will pace President Miguel Aleman's whopping $300,000,000 land development program. In the biggest reclamation project ever undertaken in Mexico, more than 17,000 square miles of steaming, flood-soaked and disease-ridden jungle in the states of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca will be turned to agricultural and industrial profit...
...Zapotecan Indian born in the tropical state of Oaxaca, Tamayo was orphaned at ten, brought up in Mexico City's fruit markets by an aunt. "My feeling is Mexican," he grins, "my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican, but my thinking is a mixture...
...smart Sinarquistas and the smooth, book-smart Action Nationalistas-have made the most of it. They have jumped on the bandwagon, talked loudly about morality in government, have urged more popular participation in civic affairs. Presumably they have also egged on at least some of the public uprisings. In Oaxaca last week the crowd uncovered when orators spoke the name of Pornrio Diaz, president-dictator (with a four-year break) from 1877 to 1911, and to many Mexicans a symbol of reaction and exploitation...
...posed a political dilemma. Whatever his lack of regard for the oldtime bosses, he still needed their support. Besides, he could not let the rightists make political hay. Firmness in the oil workers' strike (TIME, Dec. 30) had paid off; firmness in a political crisis like that at Oaxaca might pay dividends also...
...Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...