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Political campaigns (1939 onwards)

Unión Nacional de Veteranos de la Revolución

Union Nacional 10 A 00799

La Unión Nacional de Veteranos de la Revolución was created in June 1936 and headed by senior officers who saw their perks threatened, who opposed Lazaro Cárdenas organizing "irregular" military forces in the countryside and who condemned the "communist threat" sponsored by some spheres of government, such as socialist education. Its president General de división Cesáreo Castro and its secretario general Gabino Vizcarra.

1939 campaign

Comité Directivo Nacional Pro Avila Camacho

Comite Directivo Nacional 5

Comite Directivo Nacional 10

Comite Directivo Nacional 50

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$5           includes number 02453
$10           includes numbers 0316 to 0334
$50           includes number 

 

This bond has the signatures of [                 ][identification needed] as Secretario General and [                 ][identification needed] as Secretario Tesorero.

  sig Comite Directivo Nacional Presidente
   

 

Manuel Ávila Camacho (24 April 1897 – 13 October 1955) served General Lázaro Cárdenas as the Chief of his General Staff during the Mexican Revolution and afterwards. In 1929, he fought under General Cárdenas against the Escobar Rebellion, the last serious military rebellion of disgruntled revolutionary generals, and the same year, he achieved the rank of brigadier general. After his military service, Ávila Camacho entered the public arena in 1933 as the executive officer of the Secretariat of National Defence and became Secretary of National Defence in 1937. In 1940, he was elected president of Mexico. As president, he pursued "national policies of unity, adjustment, and moderation." His administration completed the transition from military to civilian leadership, ended confrontational anticlericalism, reversed the push for socialist education, and restored a working relationship with the US during World War II.

Bonos Electorales Pro-Almazan

Almazan 1 Q 021429

Almazan 1 Q 021429 reverse

Almazan 1 R 187491

Almazan 5 D 01553

Almazan 1 R 187491

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$1 Q         includes number 021429
R         includes numbers 187213 to 187271
S         includes number 005131
$5 D         includes numbers 01553 to 42921
$10            
$1,000           includes number 000245

 

Juan Andreu Almazán , of the Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Nacional, lost to Avila Camacho by 151, 101 votes to 2,476,641. These bonos electorales are discussed in Almazán's memoires of his campaignJuan Andreu Almazán, Memorias del General Juan Andreu Almazán, Informe y Documentos Sobre la Campaña Política de 1940, Mexico City, 1941.

Frente Constitucional Democrático Mexicano

Frente Constitucional Democratico Mexicano 20 1922

Frente Constitucional Democratico Mexicano 100

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$20 A         includes number 195
$10            
$100 A         includes number 362

 

This bond has four signatures: [                 ][identification needed] as, [                 ][identification needed] as Presidente, [                 ][identification needed] as Tesorero and [                 ][identification needed] as .

   
   
   
   

 

The $100 note is overprinted CAMPAÑA EN TORREON

The Frente Constitucional Democrático Mexicano was organised by the deputy Bolívar Sierra and General Ramón F. Iturbe and composed of small landowners from the North and former Obregonista soldiers. It supported the candidature of the perennially opportunist and optimistic General Rafael Sánchez Tapia.

Partido Antirreeleccionista Acción

Partido Antireeleccionista

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$1 A         includes number 0742

1945 campaign

Miguel Alemán

Bonos de la Democracia

Padilla 5 G 39519

Padilla 5 G 39519 reverse

Padilla 100 G 3357

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$5 G         includes number 39519
$50            
$100 G         includes numbers 3347 to 3357

 

Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza (31 December 1890 – 6 September 1971) served in the Senate, as Attorney General in 1928, as Secretary of Education from 1928 to 1930, as ambassador to Hungary from 1930 to 1932, and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1940 to 1945 in Camacho's cabinet. With his co-cabinet member Miguel Alemán Valdés (Secretary of the Interior), he "gave Mexico the most progressive foreign policy and the most orderly internal government in the nation's history". By 1941, he had successfully settled all foreign claims against the government stemming from the Cárdenas-era expropriations. He negotiated a favorable economic treaty, fixed the peso to the United States dollar, and secured loans for industrial development from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

He emerged alongside Alemán as a prime contender for the presidency in 1946. He was better-known abroad than his rival, and was considered to have stronger tendencies toward democracy. However, his association with the United States made him unpopular in the left wing of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Alemán won the party's nomination. Padilla ran as an independent candidate, receiving 443,537 votes. Though Alemán received over three times the number of votes, Padilla's total was respectable, considering the PRI's hegemony at the time.

1960

Confederación de Trabajadores de México

We know of a $1 bond dated 12 September 1960.

Frente Cívico Mexicano de Afirmación Revolucionaria por México y su Revolución

Frente Civico 50 A 3959

Frente Civico 50 A 3959 reverse

Frente Civico 100 A 1895

Frente Civico 100 A 1895 reverse

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$50 A         includes numbers 3959 to 3960
$100 A         includes numbers 1893 to 1896

 

On 4 August 1961 Heriberto Jara opened the constituent assembly of the Movimiento de Liberación Naciona, an independent organization that brought together almost the entire Mexican left to fight for national sovereignty, economic emancipation, solidarity, democracy and peace, and "to face the most serious and least artificial problem of our time, such as imperialism."

The Movimiento was born as a response to the repression of the government of Adolfo López Mateos to the peasant groups and the workers' and teachers' unions, and was encouraged by the fact that in Cuba a group of young people had managed to take power by arms and establish a socialist society in the middle of the Cold War.

In response, on 24 August the right wing forces in the country formed themselves into the Frente Cívico Mexicano de Afirmación Revolucionaria.

To be dated

Banco Plan de Ayala

This $100 bond is from Cuernavaca, Morelos

Partido Nacionalista Democrático

Partido Nacionalista Democractico 1

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$1         includes number 5153

 

This bond has the signatures of [                 ][identification needed] as Presidente and [                 ][identification needed] as Secretario.

  sig Partido Nacionalista Democractico Presidente
  sig Partido Nacionalista Democractico Tesorero

Partido Comunista de México

Partido Comunista 10

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$10 E         includes number 274

 

This bond has the signatures of [                 ][identification needed] as Secretario General de C. C. and [                 ][identification needed] as Secretario Nacional de Finanzas.