Luis Cabrera Lobato

Luis Cabrera
Cabrera in 1914
Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 14th district of Puebla
In office
13 July 1917 – 31 August 1918
Succeeded byConstantino Molina
Personal details
Born
Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato

(1876-07-17)17 July 1876
Zacatlán, Puebla
Died12 April 1954(1954-04-12) (aged 77)
Mexico City
CitizenshipMexican
NationalityMexican
SpouseGuillermina Nevraumont (1884–1968) / Elena Cosío
ChildrenMaría Luisa Inés/ José/ Guillermo / Mercedes / Jorge / Luis / Enrique / Daniel / Ramón
RelativesDaniel Cabrera
EducationLawyer
Alma materEscuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia (National School of Jurisprudence)
OccupationLawyer, politician, writer
Writing career
Pen nameLucas Rivera,
Lic. Blas Urrea
GenreEssays, poetry, professional literature, translations
The United States–Mexico Commission. Standing from left to right are: Stephen Bonsal, Attache of the State Department and Advisor to the American Commission; American Secretary of State Robert Lansing; Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador designate, and Leo Stanton Rowe, the Secretary to the American Commission. Sitting from left to right are John Mott of New York City; Judge George Gray of Wilmington, Delaware; Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane; Luis Cabrera Lobato, chairman of the Mexican delegation and Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico, Alberto J. Pani, President of the National Railways of Mexico; and Ignacio Bonillas, Minister of Communications and Public Works.. The image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City on 9 September 1916.

Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (17 July 1876 – 12 April 1954) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer.[1][2] His pen name for his political essays was "Lic. Blas Urrea";[3] the more literary works he wrote as "Lucas Rivera". During the late presidency of Porfirio Díaz, he was a vocal critic of the regime. He became an important civilian intellectual in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).

He was a co-founder of the Anti-Re-electionist Party, which backed the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero, and when armed revolutionaries forced Díaz to resign, he counseled Madero not to make a deal with the old regime. During the Madero administration, he drafted a reform land law, which Madero did not sign. After Madero's murder in the February 1913 coup d'état, Cabrera was a key civilian adviser to the Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza. He retired from politics following the ouster and death of Carranza in 1920.[4]

  1. ^ Con proyecto de decreto para inscribir con letras de oro en el Recinto de la Cámara de Diputados, ... Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Manuel Rodríguez Lozano[usurped] (Spanish)
  3. ^ David G. LaFrance, "Luis Cabrera Lobato," in Encyclopedia of Mexico, vol. 1, p. 176. Chicago: Fitzroy and Dearborn 1997.
  4. ^ Camp, Roderick Ai. "Luis Cabrera50 Lobato". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, v. 1, 502.