Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president called for a "crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...
...gold-toothed José Valades, national organizing secretary of the Sinarquistas. He thought it would boost Sinarquista membership. In national political terms, the massacre would cost P.R.M.'s probable candidate, Miguel Alemán, some votes in the July presidential elections, gain some for ex-foreign minister Ezequiel Padilla, who is supported by Catholic rightists...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
...That Padilla would declare himself President anyway, set up a cabinet and seek U.S. recognition...
...Padilla himself was less crass, more realistic. He took the line that the U.S. would not intervene in his behalf, but that of course the U.S. Government was for him, just as it is for all good democrats in Latin America...