Los Nuestros | Lázaro Cárdenas, crónica de la expropiación

Our People | Lázaro Cárdenas, Chronicle of the Expropriation Lázaro Cárdenas granted asylum to thousands of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, sheltered Leon Trotsky, and implemented some of the most popular measures in Mexican history, such as the landmark agrarian reform and the nationalization of the railroads. But one of Cárdenas's actions alone was enough to turn him into a myth: the 1938 oil expropriation, the most important decision in modern Mexican history. An example for Latin America. Paco Taibo II meticulously chronicles the expropriation while analyzing the current state of oil exploitation in Mexico.