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...ambitious plan for solution of this problem, blueprinted on the TVA model for the states of Sinaloa, Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, is to add thousands of square miles of newly arable land (see map). That, he hopes, will not only ease the pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from...
...when Miguel Aléman Sr., a grocer in the steaming Vera Cruz village of Sayula, took up arms against Dictator Porfirio Diaz, the wind that was to sweep Mexico was hardly a breeze. The next year the Revolution burst forth and churned the country in bitter, bloody civil war. But the Sayula grocer always managed to come out on the right side. He became a general. After the manner of Mexican generals, he also became prosperous. The Aléman family moved to Mexico City...
...Ladder. Success in politics took Aléman somewhat longer. Three times between 1929 and 1935 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from Vera Cruz. Then he renewed acquaintance with young Lieut. Colonel Carlos Serrano, a dark and devious little man with a passion for politicking. Serrano had drifted from the army into politics, watching closely as the powerful Calles maneuvered Presidents in & out of the National Palace, and the more powerful Cardenas in 1934 maneuvered...
...kingmaker. He saw a good prospect in the bright intelligence, personal charm and gleaming smile of Miguel Aléman. He got to work, and in two years Aléman zoomed from private citizen to Justice of the Superior Court of the Federal District to Senator from Vera Cruz to Governor of the state. (His predecessor had been killed in a cafe murder...
...Vera Cruz, hotbed of the Revolution, Aléman began to show the stuff that Presidents are made of. For 16 years no rents had been paid in the state because the law forbade evictions. The result was a land war in which renters and landlords often shot each other in the street. Then Aléman moved in, got a new law passed permitting evictions after six months' nonpayment of rent. His foes shrilled that he had sold out the Revolution. Aléman replied that his law was more revolutionary than the two-month eviction laws...