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...started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions out of him. Having thus implied that Mexico's "New Deal" suited his political tastes, Bandit Rodríguez promised to reform, was promptly set free by President Lázaro Cárdenas' authorization...
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...
...year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were paid in Mexican bonds which have steadily declined) totaled only 20,132,180 acres, about 1,200,000 acres per year. President Cárdenas, during the first three years of his term, gave...
...Peasants," into effect started out the 1934 campaign brochure of the National Revolutionary Party. No one took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank...
...doing for the peasantry which caused him last spring abruptly to pick the oil Apple in the Mexican Eden-i.e., confiscate the $400,000,000 oil properties when their owners, who had already yielded much to their Mexican workers, refused to make more concessions for which Lázaro Cárdenas fought (TIME, March...