Word: paisanos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance to pile up a whopping sum of honest votes. In Mexico that was something. The candidates...