- Headline
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Nations Fight Depression With Varied Programs
- Sub-Headline
- Success of So. American Countries Hinges on Other Nations
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, July 18, 1933
- Historical Event
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“Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
This database includes 249 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 2
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- MEXICO: Repatriation of nationals is on of the chief problems facing the Mexican government. More than 300,000 Mexicans, it is estimated, have come States since 1929. Mexico has welcomed its returning sons and daughters because they bring back advanced ideas of commerce and farming, and the government has placed many of them in agricultural colonies.
Work on the Mexico-Laredo highway, a national theater in the capital, several irrigation projects, and new government buildings have absorbed many otherwise idle men.
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CUBA: This nation making strong efforts in Washington and London in favor of a sugar agreement [sic] for balancing supply and demand. In Washington, Dr. Eugenio Molinet, Cuba's secretary of agriculture, and a staff of five experts are trying to co-ordinate plans with American sugar growers and refiners for distribution in the American markets by means of fixed quotas.
As a practical way of getting money into circulation, the Cuban government in the last two years has coined more than $9,000,000 in silver currency.
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CANADA: Reports from Canada are optimistic. An increase in employment and in industry is indicated. New life in the gold mining industry has aroused enthusiasm. Government include highway building, and similar public works. The wheat situation, however, is a fly in the ointment, but hopes are high that the larger production countries will agree on a restriction plan. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jeremy M.
- Location of Research
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Learn More about this Historical Event: “Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
- Anthony Acevedo, a Mexican-American deportee, and US Army medic held POW at Berga (Americans and the Holocaust online exhibition)
- America’s Forgotten History of Mexican-American ‘Repatriation’ (NPR interview with Francisco Balderrama)
- Mexican Americans and Repatriation (Texas State Historical Association)
- Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos / Fighting Mexican Removal Since the 1930s (Boyle Heights Museum)
- INS Records for 1930s Mexican Repatriation (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
- Texas’ Mass Mexican Deportation (Think; KERA interview with Melita M. Garza)
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