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...sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
From Progreso or Vera Cruz, it is an easy sail across the Gulf to the mouth of the Mississippi, and soon, from Caribbean ports like Puerto Barrios, the banana boats will again be putting out regularly for the voyage north to New Orleans. Many latinos-from Mexico and Yucatán and the other lands around the Caribbean-come mainly to shop in Canal Street department stores (where Spanish-speaking clerks are numerous), play in the French quarter (with its association with 18th-Century Spanish governors), study at Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine, and take treatment...
Cheering peons, in their dirty overalls, folded serapes over their shoulders, sailed their huge white sombreros into the air last week in Merida as President Lazaro Cárdenas, taking another step in the Agrarian reforms under his Six-Year Plan, announced he would break up Yucatán's great henequen* estates, giving the land to the peasants...