Though the article is unsigned, the inflammatory, aggressive style is very similar to that used by David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) in other contributions to El Machete. As in those articles, the emphasis is placed on discrediting the adversary more than informing or offering the reader an analysis of the event or situation addressed. The anger toward the director of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, Ángel Vallarino, could be associated with the director’s attitude toward vandalism of the murals of Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) in midyear 1924. No sanction whatsoever was meted out to those responsible for the vandalism. In addition, Siqueiros claimed that the Secretario de Educación Pública (SEP), Minister José Manuel Puig Casauranc (1888–1939) ordered his recent dismissal from his post as a teacher of Drawing and Handicrafts. At the time when the student editors of Avalancha were suspended, the SEP Minister was actually Bernardo J. Gastelum. However, the communists interpreted such events, taken together, as evidence that what they called the “reaction” sought to take control of public education away from the “revolutionaries.” This was why the reactionaries were trying to eliminate everyone who interfered with their plan. While this event was apparently marginal, it falls within a context of combat over the ideas communists were promoting through their informational publications and other spaces of cultural dissemination and political education. Thus, the threat to do away with Avalancha, a weekly magazine edited by Carlos Zapata Vela, a student sympathetic to the Communist Party, could not be allowed to pass unnoticed.