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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Mexican President Avila Camacho's cabinet, including five generals, meets in the National Palace and decides to declare war on the Axis powers, making Mexico the 10th and largest Latin American nation to do so, following sinkings of Mexican tankers by Axis submarines.
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Five generals, including Avila Camacho, participated. The others were Gen. Pablo Macias, war minister; Gen. Maximino Avila Camacho, the president's brother and minister of communications; Gen. Heriberto Jara, minister of marine, and Gen. Salvador S. Sanchez, chief of the president's general staff.
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The palace was crowded with senators, deputies and supreme court justices, who congratulated Avila Camacho on the cabinet's decision and pledged their support.
Mexico will be the 10th and largest Latin American nation to declare war on the Axis. Mexico had, by far, the most provocation.
An Axis submarine sank the tanker Potrero del Llano off Florida on May 13. Mexico, not wishing to go to war, sent a note to the Axis through Sweden—with most other American nations, it already had severed diplomatic relations with the Axis—demanding a "full explanation and reparations."
Germany's reply was to sink the ship, Faja de Oro, which was fully illuminated and easily identifiable as had been the Potrero del Llano.
Avila Camacho called his cabinet into session. It was an historic session because Mexico has not formally been at war since 1847, and then it was with the United States, now one of Mexico's closest friends.
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mexico declares war on the axis powers, becoming the 10th and largest latin american nation to do so; two mexican tankers sunk by axis submarines without reported casualties.
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President Avila Camacho convenes cabinet meeting with five generals in the National Palace; cabinet decides to declare war on Axis following sinkings of Mexican tankers Potrero del Llano on May 13 off Florida and Faja de Oro; senators, deputies, and justices congratulate and pledge support; first formal war since 1847.