Word: almaz
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...shiny cartridges, and were promised a three-day holiday with a munificent 2½ pesos a day for cigarets and pulque-all provided by district politicos in the name of Land, Liberty and the REVOLUTION. On the outskirts of the city they met hostile crowds who shouted "Viva Almazán!" and pelted them with stones. Firearms went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were in a gay mood. Some of them did not know that a new Government Congress was to be installed next day and that they were to serve as shock troops should...
...many Mexican politicos the Presidential election on July 7 had decided nothing. Both Government Candidate Manuel Avila Camacho and Oppositionist Almazán claimed victory and each faction had announced that it would install a Congress, which as an electoral college would pass on the validity of its own election and on Sept. 1 proclaim its candidate President...
...Claimant Almazán, "vacationing" in Havana since the election, announced in a broadcast that he would return to Mexico when the time was ripe for assuming the Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads...
...mourners were supporters of the anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho was indifferent to their threat. He was, he declared, "completely satisfied with the low number of dead and wounded among the 20,000,000 population of Mexico. I am taking into consideration that in the U. S. thousands of persons are killed or wounded when a railroad train is derailed...
...counting was peaceful-and absurd. "Unofficial official results": General Avila Camacho, 2,265,199 votes; General Almazán, 128,574 votes. Impartial observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General...