President Alvin Silva.
The 1944 Mexican elections were scheduled to take place in April 1944 for the purpose of choosing the President and Congress of the United States of Mexico. Incumbent President Alvin Silva announced early in 1944 that the elections would be suspended for the duration of the Global War. This was the first time a national election had been suspended since 15 September 1881, when the Cabinet voted seven to four to suspend the 1881 Mexican elections.
It may also have been around this time that Silva seized control of all Mexican newspapers, radio and vitavision stations. It was almost certainly in response to Silva's announcement that Philip Harrison, head of the Black Justice Party in Arizona, launched a guerrilla movement called the Rainbow War against the government and its supporters.
The U.S.M. would remain a virtual dictatorship under Silva until national elections were finally held in January 1950.
Sobel's source for the suspended 1944 Mexican elections is Walter Davis's At Home: Life in the U.S.M. During the Global War (Mexico City, 1965).
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