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...road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered in their cavalry boots...
...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...Soledad Etla was Mexico's first 100% literate village, but others were on the way. In Tecuexcomac, 300 villagers get up at 4 every morning to attend reading & writing classes. In El Palmito, like many of his classmates, nine-year-old Schoolboy José Rojas hurries off each day after school to teach the two Rs to a 54-year-old day laborer...