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...third term, Lázaro Cárdenas to run for a second term would have to break not only the Mexican Constitution (for which there is plenty of precedent) but his own word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires, and he has so strictly enforced the Constitution's one-term provision that no one has been allowed to run for Congress who has held any major Government office within a year prior to election...
...rdenas who is of Tarascan descent. He loves to visit the remote villages and scattered hovels of his own people, the "Indians" whom he is busy raising to the status of ''Mexicans,"likes to say: "We want fewer Indians and more Mexicans!" For them he has a Six-Year Plan or "Mexican New Deal...
...hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced...
...Six-Year Plan. "Land to the Peasants" was one slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was also the main point of the present Mexican Constitution and of the Mexican Agrarian Law adopted in the same year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners...
...Six-Year Plan, a specific program for putting the vague slogan "Land to the Peasants," into effect started out the 1934 campaign brochure of the National Revolutionary Party. No one took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons...