Lázaro Cárdenas
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional
Cárdenas in the Constitutional Army, c.1913
General Lázaro Cárdenas
Cárdenas decrees nationalization of foreign railways in 1937.
President Cárdenas, with campesinos by Roberto Cueva del Río, watercolor 1937
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party. It became the Party of the Mexican Revolution in 1938 and the PRI in
Lázaro Cárdenas
…Elías Calles, Sonoran general and former president of Mexico, as a presidential candidate and won in the 1934 general election. After founding the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) in the wake of the assassination of president-elect Álvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles had unofficially remained in power during the Maximato…
Central offices of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Plutarco Elías Calles on the cover of Time magazine in 1924
President Álvaro Obregón in a business suit, tailored to show that he lost his right arm in the Mexican Revolution and whose assassination in 1928 touched off a political crisis leading to the formation of the party
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, candidate of the PNR in the 1929 presidential election