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...guerrilla-banditos has exacerbated the tension in Guerrero, which has traditionally been Mexico's most warlike and trouble-some section. In March a former state governor and PRI chief was assassinated there by left-wing terrorists. On April 22 a group calling itself the "Comite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government agents arrested six suspects in the plot. Guerrero...
...paste potshots began when Mexican Social Psychologist Jose de Jesus Fonseca noticed an American magazine advertisement that he felt insulted the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader...
...long campaign Echeverría spoke eloquently about the problem of government corruption. "When we see bad officials who use their posts only to build their own power," he said, "we are reminded of the conquistadors. When we find an official who serves the people, we think of Zapata." He concentrated on the country's main problem, the need to develop its agricultural economy. "By the end of this decade," he promised, "Mexico will be one of the most electrically developed countries in the world." Foreign investors were welcome, "as long as they complement our national capital...
Robert Lowell, Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, was nominated for his poetry collection, Notebook 1967-68. John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, was nominated for his book, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution...
Womack's book is about Emiliano Zapata, a guerrilla leader and agrarian reformer of the 1910-1920 period in Mexico. Other contenders in the History and Biography category are Dean Acheson's Present at the Creation and Townsend Hoopes's The Limits of Intervention...