Avila Camacho

[ ah-vee-lah kah-mah-chaw ]

noun

1. Ma·nuel [mah-, nwel], 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.

Example Sentences

Arévalo, who took office earlier this year, noted that they were meeting in the same city where his father Juan José Arévalo, a former president of Guatemala, had met with his Mexican counterpart, Manuel Ávila Camacho, in 1946.

From Seattle Times

President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho in 1944, the year the national park was created, to say Big Bend would not be complete until “both sides of the Rio Grande form one great international park.”

From Seattle Times

By the 1940s they had become a family power in the sport, handpicked to compete abroad by the Mexican president, Manuel Ávila Camacho.

From New York Times

Under moderate President Avila Camacho he was stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves.

From Time Magazine Archive