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...Distant relative of Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas...
...Havana man in the street, Communist Lázaro Peña is the Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.) and the Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political...
Which Bandwagon? In the thunderous days of President Lázaro Cárdenas, Lombardo had armed his workers, organized the Workers' Administration to run the railroads, bossed the left-wing majority in Congress. Under moderate President Avila Camacho he was stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership. Within Mexico he now badly needs prestige. Both C.T.M. (the Mexican labor movement) and C.T.A.L. have lost strength because they have been so doggedly Stalinist. Possibly Lombardo may now be trying to recoup by walking away from the party line...
From Gulf to Gulf. This year three huge irrigation plants and half a dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...
...leader reversed the tide of reaction. Lázaro Cárdenas, a Tarascan Indian, finally made good some of the revolution's promises of land for the landless. In six years he expropriated and apportioned to peasants 45 million acres, over twice as much as all his revolutionary predecessors. But corruption and a shortage of plows and tractors and know-how held production down...