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| But there was no revolution in Quauhnahuac now – UTV, 99.
Morelos had been a centre of revolutionary activity, 1910-20, and Cuernavaca had come under seige from both revolutionary and government forces, the atrocities culminating after 1916 with an appalling era of plunder, torture and rape. A graphic picture displayed inside the Cortés Palace depicting one of the refined torments of the revolutionary days: a prisoner buried and left to swelter in the hot sun, a bowl of water placed just out of his reach. |
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England being persona non grata here, so to speak, after Cárdenas's oil shindig. – UTV, 30.
Lázaro Cárdenas, president of Mexico from 1934-40. After his election in 1934, Cárdenas nationalised the holdings of seventeen foreign oil companies, and converted land from private owners into communal co-operatives and model farms.
Newsboys ran past selling copies of Quauhnahuac Nuevo, the pro-Almazan, pro-Axis sheet put out, they said, by the tiresome Unión Militar. – UTV, 29.
Juan Andreu Almazán, conservative candidate for the 1940 presidential election. Almazán lost to Avila Camacho, a result which forced Lowry to alter his political predictions.