During the Mexican Revolution (1910-192 0) belligerents moved by rail, for this reason no surprise when Jose Vasconcelos, the first head of the Ministry of bouquet on behalf of President of the Republic Obregon, invited Mr. Wilfrido Massieu, to organize a School for Children of Railroad back in 1921 to 1922, the government wanted to thank the guild to participate. The idea however remained on paper but someone doubted: Why not take the initiative and also form other icos Standard Terms required by the country in its recovery post-revolutionary? Modified the original idea, creating then the ITI-Industrial-Technical Institute in 1923 beginning to form dozens of people described as builders, turners, welders, carpenters and others ... During those ten years, emerged which could be considered a new "technical proletariat" my grandfather was the Director General from 1923 to 1933 and my father, Manuel Caballero-Servin Professor of Mechanical Automotive and English.
Professor Manuel Caballero-Servin-white coat with his team and the car was manufactured in the workshops of ITI in 1928.
With the rise of Lazaro Cardenas del Rio to the Presidency of the Republic (1934-1940) the ITI became the backbone of the impending IPN, National Polytechnic Institute, announced by Mr. Ignacio García Téllez December 28 1934 at the Palace of Fine Arts, to be presented the Six Year Plan Cardenas government. The IPN not born under a decree creating just started operating in 1936. In addition to the technical staff trained initially, soon established new "career" semi-professional, professional and graduate with higher levels of qualification l. At liftoff, the IPN also took initiatives and progressive breakaway group received no spaces in the recent and Autonomous University of Mexico, after the Congress of Mexican University, 1933. As you may recall, at the end of the famous "Case-Lombardo Debate" dominated the UNAM the conservative group headed by the Chancellor Manuel Gomez Morin (1933 to 1934), it would found NAP in September 1939.
Throughout the decade of 1930, under Lazaro Cardenas del Rio, the IPN achieved galvanize proposals for a new model of science education, popular, social and democratic. At last child of dissent, the IPN started to give the nation trans-disciplinary professionals that have never before had seen: an architectural engineer, petroleum engineer, a chemist-bacteriologist, physician-rural, social anthropologist, among others. The Polytechnic was brought forward and, for years, the current development of "interdisciplinary studies" po st 1968. A little later joined the institution dozens of academics, scientists and technicians who befriended the Cardenas regime when the fratricidal struggle in Spain and the 2 nd World War (1939 - 1945) made them leave Europe, other universities would not receive then to "refugees" because they did not want "red" among them ... The "model-Cardenas polytechnic" in due course not devoid of "ninguneo" so common among us, and advanced ninguneo represented the presidency of Lázaro Tata, who was disqualified by Dr. Gustavo Baz, then Chancellor of the UNAM, IPN's capacity to train professionals, in particular the preparation of the "doctor-rural" oriented work in the field, major priority of the government at that time.
Wilfrido Massieu Pérez Engineer accompanied by ITI staff workshops in 1927.
Despite the obstacles at the Polytechnic led by my grandfather or were giant steps, of which only three examples: 1) the emergence of the 1st Urban Institute in Mexico, established in 1939 with Hannes Mayer, Director of the paradigmatic penultimate German Bauhaus refugees in the country, Mayer had to flee their country with the advent of Hitler and Nazism, 2) the emergence of the pioneers of ENAH-National School of Anthropology and History, which would be the basis of the present INAH, its wonderful museums and the great Mexican power in these sciences and 3) to expropriate their assets oil companies, such as retaliation, stolen equipment and operating manuals, as well as the qualified person abroad, the new staff trained in the oil industry IPN, was able to correct the problem in a pop-wit with traditional Mexican-manufactured pipe and fittings for extraction and transportation of petroleum-based panels, made of great innovation.
flattered Wilfrido Massieu Pérez Engineer in 1938, collaborating with management staff, the composition shown below how the preamble of the IPN was ITI.
must then ask: Who was that Lazarus who has led the country with such tact? ... does recovered Mexican oil ... which prevented the Yankees would get involved to Baja California ..., which supported the countryside and farmers in need ..., which gave asylum to many European scholars fleeing fascism ... that Mussolini opposed in their African adventure ... Compared with what's happening today around us, just want to cry "Lazarus where are you? ... Get up and walk!"
(The 3 images were taken from the book "IPN, 50 years in pictures published by the Directorate of Libraries and Publications, Tresguerras 27, 06040, Mexico DF, 1988)
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