Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Trotsky, but also Mexico's President Lázaro Cárdenas is convinced that Stalin's secret agents are bent on the Great Exile's assassination. Cárdenas' contribution to the Trotskyist cause is a guard of policemen who day & night patrol with fixed bayonets around Trotsky's home in the Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands...
...nervous Wall Street at this time with respect to all stocks: "Sell 'em! Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President of Mexico. The issue, according to Briton Rickett, is whether the Fascist Dictators can be kept from hogging Mexican bargain oil and this precious fluid saved for the great Democracies. "My motives," announced Mr. Rickett, "are patriotic...
...were inclined to regard this as a slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail public works projects, throw thousands out of work. He has divided huge estates into small peasant holdings...
...argument whether the law should be retroactive. But Ambassador Dwight Morrow in 1928 sewed up the rights of U. S. companies in an agreement with President Calles which has since been upheld by the Mexican Supreme Court. Mexico's Presidency is now occupied by New Dealing Lázaro Cárdenas. Fortnight ago, after six months of labor trouble in the oil fields which has threatened the stability of the Mexican Government, President Cárdenas disregarded the Calles-Morrow agreement, expropriated some 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil-land leased by foreigners (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week...
With lazy indifference Mexicans faced a nation-wide election last week. In Mexico City, a town of over 1,000,000 inhabitants, only 3,000 handed in votes. Everyone seemed certain that the National Revolutionary Party of stocky, able President Lázaro Cárdenas would win. They were not mistaken. With the voting booths not yet closed President Cárdenas triumphantly gave out that his party had won 160 of the 173 seats in the Chamber of Deputies...