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...Mexico's democratic President Adolfo López Mateos is one of the U.S.'s warmest friends, and since last year's settlement of the century-old dispute over the Chamizal border strip (negotiated by Tom Mann while ambassador to Mexico), the friendship has never been warmer. But Mexico maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba and is neutral in the U.S.-Cuba conflict...
Last year López Mateos approved a bold plan aimed at transplanting entire farm communities from drier, unproductive sections of the country to Mexico's humid, less populated tropics. So far the biggest of these colonies is in Campeche state, an almost virgin territory of well-watered savanna and jungle down near the Guatemalan border. Last week, after nine months of pioneering, the first 700 peasants of an estimated 20,000 were settling in at Campeche, and a whole new chapter in Mexican land reform was underway...
...about it. Over the years, labor and management could never agree on a plan. In 1961 Mexico's Congress approved a constitutional amendment-later ratified by a majority of Mexico's 29 states-giving the government power to force a settlement. Now outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos has signed the profit-sharing amendment into...
...months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...
...thing Mexicans could be fairly certain of was that the new man would be slightly right of center. By long tradition, Mexico's Presidents follow a political pendulum-right, left, right-and López Mateos calls himself "left within the constitution." He nationalized and subdivided some 30 mil lion acres of land during his five years in office, bought out private power companies, nationalized the nation's cinemas. All the while, however, he tried to industrialize Mexico and encourage the creation of private capital. Reflecting this, his Cabinet was filled with men who stood to the right...