Luis Cabrera Lobato
Mexican politician
Died when: 77 years 269 days (932 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (July 17, 1876 – April 12, 1954) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer.His pen name for his political essays was "Lic.
Blas Urrea"; the more literary works he wrote as "Lucas Rivera".During the late presidency of Porfirio Díaz, he was a vocal critic of the regime.
He became an important civilian intellectual in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).He was a co-founder of the Anti-Re-electionist Party, which backed the candidacy of Francisco I.
Madero, and when armed revolutionaries forced Díaz to resign, he counseled Madero not to make a deal with the old regime.
During the Madero administration, he drafted a reform land law, which Madero did not sign.After Madero's murder in the February 1913 coup d'état, Cabrera was a key civilian adviser to the Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza.
He retired from politics following the ouster and death of Carranza in 1920.