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...morning last week stocky, pudgy-cheeked little President Lázaro Cárdenas stood before the opening session of what may or may not prove to be the 38th Federal Congress of Mexico. For 65 minutes he talked-about inter-American solidarity, about the justice of his oil expropriations, about the success of his regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister...
...general came when Secretary of Interior Ignacio Garcia Téllez called a meeting of Mexican publishers and editors to inform them that Mexico's foreign policy was strictly pro-Allies, pro-U. S. To emphasize publicly that his sympathies were with the democracies, President General Lázaro Cardenas sent a telegram to France's President Albert Lebrun expressing the "painful impression" created by the Italian declaration...
...March 18, 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas confiscated all foreign-owned oil properties in Mexico. Aside from the doctrine that Mexican resources should belong to Mexicans, he claimed that the foreign owners were not exploiting the fields properly, had been exporting only 60,000 barrels of Mexican oil per day. "We shall increase our export to 200,000 barrels daily," boasted El Presidente. Instead, under Government operation, Mexican oil exports have dropped to around 45,000 daily while monthly operation costs have risen from 4,273,000 pesos...
...zaro Cárdenas, when he chooses to play the dictator, can pull the country out of a crisis, but he is an idealist and his ideal is the Constitution. The Constitution says that the President may not succeed himself, and so Cárdenas will not run. He will not even endorse a candidate. "The people must choose," says...
Eyes Abroad. Few people believe that Lázaro Cárdenas would stoop to such a device. He could insure a peaceful election by throwing his support to Almazán, but that would probably mean the end of Mexico's New Deal. The future of the Cárdenas revolution depends to a large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage...