Many events of those years were etched in my mind as a child when the primaries had names like "Rosa Luxemburg", "José Martí" and from the kindergarten "Bridget Alfaro" in Cologne del Valle, received a the influence of socialist education of the time ... I remember the times when I heard the grandfather Wilfred in discussions with "great" about the outcome of the second world war for the Allies, he, the son of French did not accept the widespread pro-Nazi inclination among many Mexicans. I remember my grandfather visited Notable foreign and books given to him as Marceau Pivert (great physicist and French trade union leader), Mario Fernández Vilchis (Mexico of Trotsky's personal guard), and Modesto Bargalló (English great chemist and educator), among others ...
Although my mind of a child did not understand the political significance what was happening, the figure of Leon Trotsky was, as now, the center of national and international attention to the extent that, the chronicler of Mexico City Salvador Novo satirised stay in the country of the famous Russian leader equating "to have a huge whale in the Lake of Chapultepec ..." ie, was an "animal" big in a small freshwater tank ...
would know "Wilfrido Massieu to Leon Trotsky? It is possible ... I'd read some of his works? It is very likely ... I remember your library "Their Morals and Ours", published by Key, 1939, in Mexico, Trotsky's own, the "Elementary Physics" by Pivert edited Quetzal in Mexico, 1941 and the magazine "internal" talking about Constantine Oumansky IPN, Russian Ambassador died in a tragedy at the airport in Mexico, "pointing to Maximino Avila Camacho as guilty of his attack.
Copy of "employment support" of February 17, 1930 where the salary is seen as "Director of ITI" Wilfrido Massieu, was 20 pesos ... Yes, dear reader ... 20 PESOS PER MONTH! ... plus 8 per teach.
After being Director General the IPN at the end of six years of Lazaro Cardenas and the nation into a new government that the new President said around 1941, or 42 "I am a believer ..." Wilfrido Massieu Pérez grandfather died of hypertension and Heart on March 26, 1944, this must have contributed not a little sadness. Yes, "sad" to see the educational disaster then replaced socialist education, on constitutional amendment question, gave a roll over the previous achievements. Then began the national slide the interests of big capital and U.S. champion of capitalism wild and free market ... when it suits him, "then began the process of denationalization and transfer of sovereignty that seems endless, began the process of losing our values \u200b\u200band blend in with the international overseer dominating us, started to become apparent lack of a national project and the IPN, began to be too uncomfortable as an institution for the rest of the national education system.
1940 in Morelia, Michoacan. It is presented in two parts, observing Gen. Francisco Mugica and Mr. Wilfrido Massieu, Director of IPN on the left side of the image. "Making their distance, "Dr. Gustavo Baz, Rector of the UNAM. Back and side of Mugica notes Dr. Chavez, Cardiologist. At far right, there is young ... Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.
second part of the picture above shows where the right side to President Lazaro Cardenas, on the left, with hat, his wife.
In these times when we have powerful tools to expand our knowledge , it is unforgivable that we become omnivores of their own culture and history or if you prefer, bulimic and anorexic for the junk culture we is constantly pressing the northern empire, with the complacency of the new Mexican traitors ...
