For years Sinarquistas had been a power in the Mexican countryside. They met, under their own Nazi-style red-white-green party flags, at the command of secret leaders. Around Mexico City they could rally 30,000 illiterate "soldiers" at a few hours's notice. There would be a big parade, then speakers would mount a platform in the plaza and call for cheers cheers for Christ the King, cheers for the Virgin of Guadalupe. When the speaker shouted: "Who robs Mexico of its oil?" the crowd would answer: "The U.S." "Who takes the products of...
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