Manuel Avila Camacho

Background

Manuel Ávila Camacho was born on April 24, 1897 in Teziutlán, state of Puebla, Mexico.

Education

He was educated in public schools, and at the age of 17 he joined the ultimately successful revolution against the regime of Victoriano Huerta.

Career

Ávila Camacho was skilled in negotiation and was a moderate social reformer. He resolved Mexico's former troubles with foreign investors, and he negotiated settlements of most of the difficulties that had estranged the United States and Mexico.

During World War II he cooperated closely with the United States and its allies.

Ávila Camacho was succeeded in the presidency in 1946 by Miguel Alemán and then retired to private life.

Works

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  • Mexican Revolution Party: The Second Five Year Plan, 1941-1946. Text Approved in the National Assembly Held in the City of Mexico on the 1st., 2nd. and 3rd. Days of November 1939 and several documental speechs sic, delivered by General Manuel Avila Camach
  • Address to the Mexican agronomists (Mexico. Departamento de Información para el Extranjero. National and international problems series)
  • To the second national congress of the C.T.M. To the 1941 graduating class of teachers. Speeches.
  • Igualdad democratica de los pueblos (Mexico ante el conflicto mundial). La justicia es la paz.

References

• De las preceptoras niñeras a las profesoras educadoras en Zacatecas: La formación en educación preescolar en la Escuela Normal "Manuel Ávila Camacho", 1940-1960 (Spanish Edition)
• The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State