Word: sinarquistas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indignation was quickly fanned by traditionally anti-U.S. elements. The Sinarquista national committee publicly protested "the violation of our soil." Right-wing Catholic university students staged a street demonstration...
Like most of the 27, basket maker Luterio Alcaraz had been no Sinarquista, only a devout Catholic. With his wife he had gone to the square to shout a protest. The pro-Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...
...last week's shooting in the León square was slight, 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...
...attacks were immediately attributed to the reactionary-Catholic, pro-Fascist Unión Nacional Sinarquista, which has consistently fought conscription and urged collaboration with Franco Spain against the U.S. Labor's El Popular called the attacks a "new act of Sinarquista vandalism." Others remembered that less serious attacks last month in Morelos had been carried out under the Sinarquista slogan: "Take Away Your Military Service...
Prodded by square-jawed Fidel Velázquez, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers Confederation, the Chamber of Deputies last month demanded that President Manuel Avila Camacho dissolve the Sinarquista Union, whose blind discipline was all too reminiscent of the Nazis. Under one Salvador Abascal its membership had grown to at least 200,000 trained men before Abascal lost his job for talking too much. How long, the Chamber of Deputies asked, could Mexican democracy tolerate a wellarmed, anti-democratic party which...