Joseph Goulden
- 1966
Fellowship Title:
- Political Movements in Mexico and Guatemala
Fellowship Year:
- 1966
A Presidential Visit
JCG-2 Calle Lancaster #25 Colonia Juarez Mexico 6, D.F. May 2, 1966 Mr. Goulden is 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Philadelphia Inquirer. Permission to reprint this article may be sought from The Managing Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 400 N. Broad Street., Philadelphia 19101. Two-year-old Eduardo Gonzalez skipped in from nursery school the afternoon of April 14, thrust his arm into the air, and informed his mother, “Salud Johnson!” At about the same time a lawyer, section chief in the Procuraduria General de la Republica – equivalent of the U. S. Justice Department – passed a roster around the office. Everyone was expected to sign to signify his intention of attending the parade later in the day. At industrial plants on Mexico City’s eastern fringes, trucks were waiting when the assembly lines closed, and union officers handed miniature U. S. and Mexican flags to workers as they clambered onto rough wooden seats. Many youngsters didn’t go to school at all that day: Members of the youth auxiliary of Partido
Mexico and Her Critics
JCG-1 Calle Lancaster #25 Colonia Juarez Mexico 6, D.F. April 8, 1966 Mr. Goulden is 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Philadelphia Inquirer. Permission to reprint this article may be sought from The Managing Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 400 N. Broad Street., Philadelphia 19101. From the Hollywood viewpoint “Marriage on the Rocks” was a harmless situation comedy, 100 minutes of antic confusion as Frank Sinatra, pretty girls and assorted other characters whisked through the divorce and marriage mills of a dirty, nameless Mexican border town. As guide they had a drunken mayor (Cesar Romero), who warned of the horrible consequences faced by anyone who drank the water. Not a great work of cinematic art–simply something to send patrons chuckling from the theater. But Mexico isn’t laughing. And her official reaction points up the raw-nerve sensitivity of Mexicans to criticism which reflects on their development of the past half-century, and also the differing standards the Mexican government applies to internal and external critics of the nation, its people and