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Twenty million Mexicans had a new President. The 2,500 Mexican big shots and distinguished foreign guests inside the auditorium-General Jonathan Wainwright and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder among others-applauded. Notably absent: ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, symbol of the revolutionary left...
...downed hammers, laid sickles aside. While everything in the country stopped but a few trains and trams, members of the Communist-controlled Cuban Confederation of Labor swung past Havana's presidential palace to the conga beat of a hit tune called America Immortal. Their secretary, Communist Làzaro Peña, stood with President Ramón Grau San Martin as he reviewed the parade from his balcony...
...President Lázaro Cárdenas last week announced his intention of resigning as Minister of National Defense. He said that after leaving office, he intended to return to his farm. The press made the obvious comparisons with Rome's Cincinnatus...
Batista lost the election, but the Communists won a strategic advantage. With three seats in the Senate, they held the balance of power. Under their crack-voiced mulatto leader, Lázaro Peña, they were in a position, to put a demolition charge under the President whenever they chose to. Grau paid for their support with wage increases, other favors, of which the most dazzling was the Workers' Palace...
Mexico's railroads, always insufficient, have been bedeviled by politics, have frequently broken down. In 1938 President Lázaro Cárdenas handed their management over to the railroad workers' unions. This well-meant gesture turned out as badly as might have been expected. Strikes continued, wrecks increased, efficiency declined...