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Meanwhile a discordant voice sounded from Mexico, whose history is speckled with de facto Governments set up by military rebellion. Last week Mexico's Leftist Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) asked President Lázaro Cárdenas to refuse Somoza's de facto Government Mexican recognition. "It is time," the Confederation sanctimoniously declared, "to do something to end military rebellions in Latin America." This put President Cárdenas in a ticklish spot. Latin American nations have repeatedly charged that the U. S.'s occasional refusal to recognize Latin-American revolutionary Governments was in effect...
Suddenly stricken with appendicitis in Mexico City, President Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico was operated on at a public hospital, would not allow the removal of the other patients from the public ward in which he was bedded...
...afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
General Lázaro Cárdenas was to be another Calles puppet as President of Mexico. But at last the Party had found a man who sincerely believed in its program. Impassively, almost imperceptibly, prim-faced Cárdenas undercut Calles by giving the people some of the things Calles had promised them. When, last year, Calles suddenly tried to crack down on his man, he found that Cárdenas had sewed up the loyalty not only of the peasants and workers but of the Army as well...
...away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic President Lázaro Cárdenas...