Narciso Bassols
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Narciso Bassols García (October 22, 1897 – July 24, 1959)[1][2] was a Mexican lawyer,[2][3] socialist politician,[4] ambassador to France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom,[1][2] and professor of law at the National University of Mexico.[4] He co-founded the Popular Party (Spanish: Partido Popular),[1] and the League of Political Action (Spanish: Liga de Acción Política).[1] Bassols is most noted for his role in socializing the country's public education system.[5]
Narciso Bassols, born in Tenango del Valle, Estado de México, was an atheist[4] and the nephew of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.[6] As author of the Agrarian Law of 1927, Bassols fought for agrarian reform and is noted as stating of the long suffering Mayan people: "hundreds of infamies, deceptions, Socialist mystifications, mass murders, immortal and ostentatious corruptions, banquets of bureaucrats, and Roman orgies all practiced by Socialist compañeros."[7]