Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mexico. President Adolfo López Mateos, frightened by the support for Castro shown by Mexico's old national hero, ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, has been jailing leftists without trial. In less stable countries, such highhandedness could lead to rebellion, but López Mateos is still backed by the all-powerful Revolutionary Institution Party and a growing anti-revolutionary middle class...
Under such pressures, Latin American governments shied at opposing Castro. The tip-off came in Mexico. Prompted by Mexican ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who expropriated foreign oil holdings himself in 1938, a congressional leader of Mexico's ruling party said: "In this critical moment for our sister republic of Cuba, when it appears that our Northern neighbor is closing the door of friendship and comprehension to the yearning of the Cuban people to live in liberty and economic independence, we, the representatives of the Mexican people, repeat our attitude of solidarity with the people...