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which he had announced in his inaugural address in 1933), moved quickly to uphold nonintervention, yet hoped that Mexico’s leftist activities and ideas might appeal. The Mexican administration worked on a number of different projects, from socialist education (objecting to many of its neighbors who approved its religious institutions), to the Spanish Civil War (which helped the Repub- lican government and had then permitted many of them to move to Mexico itself although other states supported Francisco Franco’s rightist, Roman Catholic armies), to the 1938 expropriation removing most foreign industries from Mexico’s oil fields. It even helped engineering projects; one major success was an irrigation mission to Bolivia from the Mexican Comisio´n Nacional de Irrigacio´n, completed several year later. Mexico pushed its policies through newspapers and reports and clippings that were sent through its diplomats, lecturing and writing as well far to the south but hearing directly through the radio where Guatemalans and Cubans could receive broadcasts. Toward the end, the Cardenas regime sent goodwill missions to several other nations; in 1938, the Mexican ambassador in Cuba arranged to send a ship from Mexico to Havana including artists, writers, dancers, and even military planes and aviators to entertain and
Pacific Historical Review – University of California Press
Published: Aug 1, 2018
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