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...questions that powerful President Cárdenas has been the most popular, most personally democratic, most politically radical of the 45 presidents whom Mexico has had in 114 years. But, whereas Franklin Roosevelt will have to break solemn precedents to run for a third term, Lázaro Cárdenas to run for a second term would have to break not only the Mexican Constitution (for which there is plenty of precedent) but his own word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires, and he has so strictly enforced the Constitution...
Mexico's Roosevelt- The proud racial characteristics of a Tarascan Indian are a peanut-shaped head, thick lips and a compact physique of great physical endurance. All these belong to Lázaro Cárdenas who is of Tarascan descent. He loves to visit the remote villages and scattered hovels of his own people, the "Indians" whom he is busy raising to the status of ''Mexicans,"likes to say: "We want fewer Indians and more Mexicans!" For them he has a Six-Year Plan or "Mexican New Deal...
...zaro Cárdenas makes frequent journeys to observe conditions among his people. As tireless a horseman as Roosevelt I, President Cárdenas loves to beat the brush, sometimes leaves his $350,000 Olivo (olive-colored special train) at an obscure siding and gallops off to find the underprivileged. On such occasions local governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda...
...some still-smoking hovels and a group of dispossessed peons standing abjectly in the road. The peons explained to the President that they were squatters who had refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses of a few poor peons because they want a little piece of land...
Such is the patriarchal quality of Lázaro Cárdenas' radicalism. He is no more a Marxian Socialist than was King Arthur or Robin Hood. He is a purely Mexican radical and has no particularly high opinion of Leon Trotsky to whom he has given haven...