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ANGEL BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
Just Curious. In Veracruz, Mexico, after retailers were found to be selling 35,000 liters of milk a day - 10,000 more than they get from all the cows in the Veracruz milkshed - a Dairymen's Association spokesman stated: "We don't want to accuse anyone of watering the milk, but we think the situation merits investigation...
...have ever heard such tributes to themselves as Lara did through his week-long anniversary. Five ex-Presidents of Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...
...given a suite. He asked the rate and was told it was 100 pesos. "Don't you think I can solve my problems just as well for 25 pesos?" he asked, and moved to a single room. His happiest days were spent on visits to his native Veracruz. There he would stroll about exchanging greetings with boyhood friends, or sit under the arcades at the old whitewashed Diligencias Hotel, playing dominoes...
That day he announced a Cabinet that included not one of Alemán's cronies. A few days later he published a complete list of his assets-his Mexico City house, a small Veracruz ranch, his savings, his 1948 Lincoln and his furniture. The total valuation was $34,000. Then he directed that all 250,000 government employees follow his example, with a warning that the lists would be checked for accuracy and checked again when the men left government service. When the treasury sent him the President's customary $4,000 monthly check for "special expenses...