Cabrera Lobato, Luis (1876–1954)

Luis Cabrera Lobato (b. 17 July 1876; d. 1954), leading Mexican intellectual remembered for a brilliant speech before the Chamber of Deputies advocating an agrarian reform law in 1912, for hundreds of political essays written under the pen name of Blas Urrea, and for his complete intellectual independence from successive post-revolutionary governments.

Cabrera, the son of a humble baker, Gertrudis Lobato, attended the National Preparatory School (1889–1893). He went on to complete his law degree from the National School of Law in 1901, after which he practiced law and taught. A cofounder of the Anti-Reelectionist Party in 1909, he became dean of the National School of Law and a federal deputy in 1912, later serving as an agent of the Constitutionalists in the United States and as Venustiano Carranza's treasury secretary. He retired from politics in 1920, and though he was twice offered the presidential candidacy by opposition parties—in 1933 and 1946—he declined to run.

See alsoAgrarian Reform .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Luis Cabrera, Obras Completas, 4 vols. (1972–1975).

Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, "Review of Obras Completas, vols. 1-4, by Luis Cabrera," in Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1978): 127-130.

Fernando Zertuche Muñoz, Luis Cabrera: Una visión de México (1988).

Additional Bibliography

Uhthoff López, Luz María. Las Finanzas Públicas durante la Revolución: El Papel de Luis Cabrera y Rafael Nieto al Frente de la Secretaría de Hacienda. México, D.F.: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapa-lapa, 1998.

                                   Roderic Ai Camp