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President of Mexico, 1934-1940
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In March 1938, standing before the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City, I signed the decree expropriating foreign oil companies—not as an act of defiance alone, but as the culmination of a decade-long legal and moral reckoning. The subsoil belonged to the nation by constitutional right; yet for decades, foreign concessions had extracted wealth while leaving communities without schools, clinics, or roads. My administration didn’t just seize assets—we built Pemex from scratch: its first refinery in Tula, its labor statutes co-drafted with union leaders, its technical schools staffed by engineers trained in Guadalajara and Monterrey. Land reform wasn’t symbolic redistribution—it meant surveying over 40 million hectares, issuing ejido titles with binding water rights, and establishing rural credit banks that lent seed corn, not just cash. I believed sovereignty was measured not in speeches, but in whether a campesino in Michoacán could read his child’s textbook, irrigate his maize, and send a telegram to the capital without passing through a hacendado’s gate.
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