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President López Mateos defines the middle class as "that group which works and lives on a regular salary at a regular job. Its members are literate, ambitious, with dreams for their children and their country. All the dreams may not come true, but these families struggle and never stop hoping...
...Middle. The people that López Mateos pledged himself to serve range from Mexico's idle rich to Mexico's idle poor. The lower class-still more than two-thirds of Mexico's population of nearly 33 million-is made up of slimly nourished Indians, peons and drifters who barely manage to stay alive on beans and tortillas, who wear huaraches or go barefoot, who live in Mexico's 2,000,000 adobe hovels, who never spend more than a few pesos from the time they are born until they die. The upper class, socially...
Where Are You Going? López Mateos climbed the slippery slopes of politics with the aid of a fine baritone speaking voice, a gift for oratory, a quick wit, and a knack for making close and lasting friendships. At college in Toluca, he was an ardent campus politician and belonged to the Socialist coalition, which at that time was the major opposition to the government's National Revolutionary Party, now the all-dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (P.R.I.). In 1929 Colonel Carlos Riva Palacio, head of the government party, came to Toluca for a party convention...
Mountain Meeting. Riding the bus to the office and the university from his home in the Mexico City district of Santa Maria, López Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother...
...mountain-climbing party in 1938, López Mateos met a pretty young schoolteacher named Eva Sámano. López Mateos married her in 1940. Señora López Mateos' grandfather was British, and she is ardently Anglophile and pro-U.S., but her affection for the U.S. never rubbed off on her husband. He compounds the Mexican's moody distrust of the Colossus of the North with an unshakable belief that the U.S. is run by and for a profit-hungry band of bankers. Told once that only 5% of all U.S. citizens...