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Known as "Jefe Maximo de la Revolución" during the presidencies of Portes Gil, Ortiz Rubio and Rodríguez. Founder of the PNR (renamed the PRI in 1946).
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In 1924 he founded the Border Socialist Party and in the following year he was elected constitutional governor of his native state. During his government, he carried out important legislative activity and promoted the organization of workers and peasants.
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He forced the high officials to revalidate their rank, also modernized and professionalized the armed forces. He promoted agrarian, irrigation and credit legislation for the countryside. He founded the ejidal and agricultural banks. He restructured the Chapingo School and the Veterinary Medicine School.
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During his presidency, he promulgated the anti-reelection reform to the Constitution, which prevented the immediate reelection of all positions of popular election, established as of April 29, 1933. He granted, by decree of May 2, 1933, complete control of changes to the Bank of Mexico.
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Cárdenas was a great statesman, remembered as a faithful fighter of the Mexican Revolution, defender of justice and equal rights for all the people. In addition, he served as governor of Michoacán and won the presidential elections of 1934. Later, he created the Mexican Revolutionary Party (PRM) that included those who identified with progressive thoughts.
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The road network was expanded to connect important cities, railways were built in various places in the Mexican Republic, mail and telegraph networks were expanded, radio transmissions reached a larger audience, irrigation works were built: such as dams and irrigation canals.
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The reform of article 27 of the Constitution to allow protection for small owners, threatened with expropriation of their lands; promoted industrialization, centered in Mexico City and tourism in Acapulco; It fostered the construction industry, which had an unprecedented development, more than eleven thousand kilometers of roads, housing complexes and residential areas were built in the capital, the university city of the National University, airports and hydraulic works.
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His administration was characterized by the creation of the University City and the industrialization of Mexico. He was a member of the academies of the language of Mexico, Spain, Colombia and Nicaragua.
During his administration, the ISSSTE and the National Museum of Anthropology were created. He also nationalized the electrical industry. His government was characterized by a policy of balance between conservative and progressive forces. -
He helped draft the immigration labor treaty between the United States and Mexico. He increased industrialization, expanded land reform laws, intensified state intervention in the economy, embarked on major public health programs, and launched a literacy campaign.
