Word: zquez
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...
Prodded by square-jawed Fidel Velázquez, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers Confederation, the Chamber of Deputies last month demanded that President Manuel Avila Camacho dissolve the Sinarquista Union, whose blind discipline was all too reminiscent of the Nazis. Under one Salvador Abascal its membership had grown to at least 200,000 trained men before Abascal lost his job for talking too much. How long, the Chamber of Deputies asked, could Mexican democracy tolerate a wellarmed, anti-democratic party which...