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...calculated to woo a political minority with whom Dick Nixon so far strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...
...chance of a warm official welcome elsewhere is slight. All the major Latin American Presidents-Argentina's Frondizi, Mexico's López Mateos, Brazil's Kubitschek, Venezuela's Betancourt, Chile's Alessandri, Colombia's Lleras Camargo-are authentic, elected democrats, friendly to the U.S. and fearful of letting Khrushchev get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. But though Latin America is gifted with many mature and responsible top officials, it also has masses of poor and illiterate people whose grievances can be exploited. From his platform in Cuba, Khrushchev undoubtedly hopes to talk...
...President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...
...Mexican President's hospitality with a huge fiesta at the ranch, featuring a Mexican band, platters of $2.50-per-lb. beef barbecue, hundreds of Mexican tricolors, 800 goggle-eyed guests, and a sign, prominently displayed on a tree: LYNDON JOHNSON SERÁ PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
Last week, fielding questions from textile workers in Querétaro, LÓpez Mateos handled one of Mexico's hottest issues: religion. Countering the violently anticlerical traditions of the Mexican revolution, he promised "absolute freedom of belief" and told a Roman Catholic worker that his convictions "should remain invariable, letting neither time nor intrigue shadow them...