An Interview with General Cárdenas

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 26, we were ushered into the office of Mexico's former President Lazaro Cardenas, a large pleasant room, one side of which was filled with books in Spanish and English, on themes ranging the entire economic, social, and political gamut of 20th-century civilization. Strange—or is it?—for the peasant's son of Jilquilpan who can claim only four years of formal education in a rural school. "I got my education," he explains, "in the fields of Michoacan."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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