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...Russia-fearing Finland and the neutralist United Arab Republic will probably win seats, might cut the reliable majority to 6-5.) ¶Latin America has never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June 13 (created by Rojas to commemorate the day he took power in 1953). The next step is up to the Colombia Supreme Court, which...
...uncovered enough evidence to indict Lacson and 26 henchmen for murder. The trial began in January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino's presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: "When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people of my country...
Campaign Issue. But in 1951 a nobody named Moises Padilla invaded Lacson's territory by running as opposition candidate for mayor of Magallon. Lacson sent word to Padilla to drop out. Usually this sufficed ; instead Padilla, an old guerrilla fighter against the Japanese, appealed to Ramon Magsaysay. then Defense Secretary, for protection. Magsaysay also worked for Liberal President Quirino, but Magsaysay had no use for Lacson's little dictatorship. The army protected Padilla...
...Padilla lost the election, of course. That night Lacson's uniformed bully boys picked him up and took him on an impromptu road show. They toured from town to town beating and torturing Padilla, displaying him in a public square while one of the boys announced: "Here is what happens to people who oppose us." Once Padilla saw his mother and managed to mumble: "Communicate Magsaysay." But when Magsaysay reached Negros Occidental, he found Padilla's body, broken and dripping blood onto a police bench with 14 bullets in the back. Lacson smiled easily: "Shot dead...