Francisco J. Múgica

Francisco Jose Mugica Velázquez ( September 3, 1884 – April 12, 1954). was a military revolutionary, Major General and Mexican politician. Constituent in the Constitutional Congress in 1917 that made the Constitution of Mexico and governor of the state of Tabasco and Michoacán and the then Territory of Baja California Sur and Marias Islands, plus the head of the secretariats of National Economy and Communications and Public Works during the government of Lazaro Cardenas

Francisco J. Mugica was born in Tingüindín, Michoacán. His father was a school teacher which meant Mugica had to move from one place to another, causing him to complete his primary education in various schools. After completing his preparatory studies, he began working as a journalist, being a liberal contributor to several newspapers, including Regeneración of Enrique Flores Magón and his brothers. In Zamora, Michoacan, he completed his studies in seminary and started a small opposition newspaper against Porfirio Diaz.

Years later he would move to Mexico City, where he would have contact with various figures in conspiracies for the Mexican Revolution; in 1910 he traveled to San Antonio,Texas to begin the organization of the Revolutionary Meetings. He joined forces Pascual Orozco, taking what would become Ciudad Juarez in 1911; then with Lucio Blanco, they started to do the first land distribution in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1913. He was subsequently charged with various military activities, such as being a general and lieutenant to Venustiano Carranza and Alvaro Obregon among others. He led the revolutionary forces in Michoacán, where he met Lazaro Cardenas, who would be his ideological pupil.His military career led to disagreements with General Alvaro Obregon, who sent to assassinate him. His friendship with the General Lazaro Cardenas allowed him to know the intentions of Oregon and escape his executioners.At the end of his military career, he was responsible for the Heroic Military Academy (Mexico) ,the Commander in the South and was Governor of Tabasco and President of the Military Court

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