Lázaro Cárdenas
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Sep 9, 2026
Paloma DuránHOST
Bajo esta operación, la CIA colaboró con la Dirección Federal de Seguridad, el Servicio de Inteligencia Mexicano de la época, para realizar espionaje e intervenciones telefónicas contra opositores, contra activistas, contra, eh, periodistas.
Paloma DuránHOST
Y todos los archivos los desclasificaron y justamente demuestran que estaban vigilados los expresidentes más de izquierda, como Lázaro Cárdenas y el muralista, también de izquierda, David Alfaro Siqueiros, y que la colaboración con el gobierno mexicano realmente era espiar a la izquierda.
Paloma DuránHOST
Y bueno, según esto se prolongó hasta la década de los 90 este espionaje.
Paloma DuránHOST
Y ya, bueno, como también ustedes se acordarán en un episodio de Latinizando Noticias, de hecho hasta hablamos que habían varios presidentes mexicanos que se les acusa de haber sido de la CIA.
Kirsten WeldGUEST
And then smaller shares go, there's actually a great, so there's three countries that officially accept Republican refugees while the Spanish Civil War is going on in Latin America.
Kirsten WeldGUEST
One is Mexico, which is governed by its own basically kind of popular frontist in all but name government of Lázaro Cárdenas, that's sort of doing the most of any post-revolutionary government to actually implement the ideals of the Mexican Revolution.
Kirsten WeldGUEST
And Cárdenas basically makes himself the number one ally of the Republic.
Kirsten WeldGUEST
It doesn't have the resources that the Soviet Union could contribute, which were themselves far less than what the Axis powers contributed to Franco, but which nevertheless was more than Mexico.
John DavisHOST
What Chavismo actually was What was presented for two decades as socialism of the 21st century was, from its origins, the diversion of a revolutionary upsurge into national reformism funded by oil rent.
John DavisHOST
Leon Trotsky's analysis of Lazaro Cardenas' Nationalizations in Mexico supplies the clearest explanation of this phenomenon.
John DavisHOST
A national bourgeois government in a semi-colonial country, he wrote, veers between foreign and domestic capital, governing either as the instrument of foreign capital or by manoeuvring with the proletariat to gain limited room against it.
John DavisHOST
Trotsky was explicit that it would be an outright deception to claim the road to socialism runs through nationalisation by a bourgeois state.
Patience SchellGUEST
And so Leon Trotsky had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was seeking safe haven and had already gone through multiple countries.
Patience SchellGUEST
And so Frida a- and Diego, they interceded with President Lázaro Cárdenas to see if Cárdenas would offer Trotsky exile in Mexico.
Patience SchellGUEST
And Cárdenas was convinced to do this.
Patience SchellGUEST
And so Leon Trotsky and his wife came to Mexico, and they were housed initially for the first two years of their time in Mexico in Frida's house, the, the Casa Azul, the blue house in Coyoacán.