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Manuel Avila Camacho[mAnwel´ A´vElA kAmA´chO] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1955, president of Mexico (1940–46). As a young man, Avila Camacho joined the revolutionary forces. Later he became brigadier general. Under LAzaro CArdenas he became (1938) minister of national defense. As president he followed a middle-of-the-road policy based on the agricultural, industrial, and educational reforms begun by CArdenas. During World War II, he cooperated with the United States in programs of hemisphere defense, reciprocal trade, and agricultural labor exchange and sent (1945) a Mexican air squadron to fight in the Pacific.
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