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...career. It blazoned from a sign at Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery and most productive political journey...
High Dives & Dancers. That afternoon, Ike and his host got away from the crowds, boarded President López Mateos white, 168-ft. yacht Sotavento, cruised for four hours in the glistening bay as they talked business with their aides (one U.S. staffer: Latin American...
Your comprehensive and accurate view of Mexico today is tarnished by your cover painting splash of President López Mateos...
...next foreigner was Yanqui Sam Houston, who defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and won the independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...
...consolidator. He hooked up power lines and irrigation canals to Alemán's dams, cleaned up corruption, opened new areas for food growing. Quietly, he encouraged foreign investors to flood into Mexico with capital, machinery, ideas to feed the boom that incoming President Adolfo López Mateos inherited this week...