Narciso Bassols García (October 22, 1897 – July 24, 1959)[1][2] was a Mexican lawyer,[2][3] socialist politician,[4] ambassador to France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom,[1][2] and professor of law at the National University of Mexico.[4] He co-founded the Popular Party (Spanish: Partido Popular),[1] and the League of Political Action (Spanish: Liga de Acción Política).[1] Bassols is most noted for his role in socializing the country's public education system.[5]
Narciso Bassols, born in Tenango del Valle, Estado de México, was an atheist[4] and the nephew of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.[6] As author of the Agrarian Law of 1927, Bassols fought for agrarian reform and is noted as stating of the long suffering Mayan people: "hundreds of infamies, deceptions, Socialist mystifications, mass murders, immortal and ostentatious corruptions, banquets of bureaucrats, and Roman orgies all practiced by Socialist compañeros."[7]
- ^ a b c d Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993. University of Texas Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-292-71181-6.
- ^ a b c Miller, Nicola (1999). In the Shadow of the State. Verso. pp. 86, 87, 82. ISBN 1-85984-205-4.
- ^ Stein, Philip (1994). Siqueiros: his life and works. International Publishers Co. p. 107. ISBN 0-7178-0706-1.
- ^ a b c Sherman, John W. (1997). The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 37. ISBN 0-275-95736-5.
- ^ Fallaw, Ben (2001). Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán. Duke University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-8223-2767-8.
- ^ Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo (1992). Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 393, 375, 403, 440. ISBN 0-393-31066-3.
- ^ Babb, Sarah L. (2001). Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-691-07483-6.