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Acts of Man. Bad news was tempered with good. Alemán pointed to the Papaloapan River project that would set up a sort of Mexican TVA (TIME, March 31), a related plan to expand facilities for farm credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would...
This week Adolfo Orive de Alba, President Aleman's Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide...
...this will take time (about six years) and money ($200,000,000). But Orive de Alba knows that Papaloapan can do much for Mexico. To invite industry to the valley, more power than all Mexico now produces will flow from the four dams. Reclaimed swamps, flood lands and arid areas soon to be irrigated will be opened to farmers. The region's present population of 170,000 poor bush-grubbers, Engineer de Alba hopes, will grow to more than 600,000 when his work is done...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...
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