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Attached is a cartoon clipping from this morning's Tampico El Mundo which illustrates the reaction of some Latin Americans to the re-election of President Roosevelt...
...American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only six escort vessels, ten coast-guard gunboats and three patrol vessels. Once landed, a strong hostile force would have only the difficulties of the terrain and a doubtful...
...jampacked Plaza de Toros at Tampico, Mexico, 5,000 aficionados sat stock-still one afternoon last week. In the centre of the ring, glistening in the sunlight, a wisp of a girl stood directly in the path of a charging bull, heels together, her sword poised ready for the kill. With one businesslike thrust over his horns and between the shoulder blades, the bull crumpled to the sand, shuddered, lay dead...
...British cruiser last week chased the German freighter Havelland into Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico where she evidently intended to pick up gas and oil supplies. Same day the German tanker Emmy Friederich slid out of Tampico on Mexico's other coast, carrying 39,500 barrels of oil and a lot of livestock, lumber and cloth. She said she was bound for Malmö, Sweden, but observers guessed she had a U-boat rendezvous...
...unable to pay," mobs of grimy, swarthy oil workers milled about the sun-caked oil fields one day last week seizing derricks, refineries, company rail lines and tank cars. Exultant peons in flopping shirts and trousers swarmed over company offices, quarters and stores. At the oil-loading docks at Tampico, they clambered aboard three British-owned tankers and claimed them for Mexico's 18,000 oil workers...