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Founded in 1929 by the republic's second postrevolutionary President, Plutarco Elias Calles, and shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official...
Jerold L. Zaro Asbury Park...
...When I saw it, this commanded such deep respect and reverence in me that, since it already possessed so much spirit and living flesh, all the portrait lacked was the voice." So wrote Velásquez's protector, Lázaro Diaz del Valle, when he saw the portrait in 1656. It was, and remains, a "speaking likeness," but it also has the eloquence that only great art possesses. It defeats imagination by leaving nothing to imagine: imagination is replaced by consciousness...
Died. General Lázaro Crdenas, 75, hero of Mexico, President from 1934 to 1940, and a major power in the ruling Revolutionary Party until his death; of liver disease; in Mexico City. One of the first and most forceful of the Latin American leftist nationalists, Crdenas enraged Britain and the U.S. in 1938 by expropriating $450 million worth of oil holdings owned by foreign concerns. When the U.S. retaliated by cutting off silver purchases, Crdenas agreed to pay some compensation, but continued to seize land owned by Americans. Eventually, Crdenas redistributed...
...Mexico, Brazilian diplomats called on influential Mexican authorities to convince them that it would be a good idea to keep Lázaro Cárdenas at home. Brazil's embassy in Mexico City then announced that a new rubber stamp was needed to validate tourist cards-and apologized to waiting Mexican and Cuban delegations that the stamp had not yet arrived from Brazil. It never...