Word: tapachula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman administration fired three governors and a raft of local officeholders, the Sinarquistas claimed the credit...
...flared first last year in Leon, where trigger-happy soldiers killed 27 citizens demonstrating against a municipal government that had been "imposed" by bosses. Nationwide indignation drove the governor and mayor from office. Fire blazed again on New Year's Eve when police killed ten demonstrators at Tapachula. on the Guatemalan frontier. There the governor took hasty leave of absence...
...recent C.T.A.L. conference in Costa Rica, he put over a program favoring protective tariffs for new national industries such as Mexico is developing. And in a speech at Tapachula in October he warned Guatemalan laborites against class warfare orators of the extreme left. "Our tactic is that of national unity," he proclaimed...
...slatternly Mexican border town of Tapachula had spruced up for the occasion. At the airport, under a brassy sun, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho and Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo slapped each other's broad backs in warm Latin embrace. Their wives embraced also (see cut). Never before had Mexico's relations with its southern neighbor been so cordial...