LATIN AMERICA: Latin America

Mexico: The political campaign to elect a successor to President Obregon will open in May. Six aspirants to Presidential office are announced by the newspaper El Universal:

1). Adolfo de la Huerta, present Finance Minister. General Huerta was elected Provisional President after the civil war of 1920, but was defeated in the Presidential elections which returned General Alvaro Obregon. De la Huerta says, however, that he will not accept nomination and feels himself strongly bound to Calles.

2). General Plutarco Calles, the favorite, is supported by the Partido Co-operatista National, by far the...

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