Explore the José Vasconcelos Calderón (1882–1959) about the The Mexican Revolution, (1910-21) of the Independence, Reform, Revolution Panel in this artwork, Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito.
= José Vasconcelos Calderón (1882–1959) We referred to José Vasconcelos at the beginning of this Wikipedia article under the background section because he was the government official who is credited with initiating the project to create public art like the murals of Diego Rivera.
In the image above, the text above the heads of the three men was authored by Vasconcelos. The text is a shortened version of the following:
“El cargo que ocupo me pone en el deber de hacerme intérprete de las aspiraciones populares, y en nombre de ese pueblo que me envía os pido a vosotros, y junto con vosotros a todos los intelectuales de México, que salgáis de vuestras torres de marfil para sellar pacto de alianza con la Revolución. Alianza para la obra de redimirnos mediante el trabajo, la virtud y el saber. El país ha menester de vosotros. La Revolución ya no quiere, como en sus días de extravío, cerrar las escuelas y perseguir a los sabios”
The above, translated, by machine, into English is:
“The position I occupy puts me in the duty of becoming an interpreter of popular aspirations, and on behalf of that people that sends me, I ask you, and together with you all the intellectuals of Mexico, to come out of your ivory towers. to seal an alliance pact with the Revolution. Alliance for the work of redeeming ourselves through work, virtue and knowledge. The country needs you. The Revolution no longer wants, as in its days of misguidance, to close the schools and persecute the wise.”
José Vasconcelos was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca. In his youth his family moved to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a border town where he attended school in Eagle Pass, Texas. As a result, he became fluently bilingual in Spanish and English and moved freely, working and writing in the English-speaking world.  He developed a theory that Mexicans could become a fifth "cosmic race", a new superior civilization built on the genes of existing civilizations flowing through the veins of Mexicans. In 1924 he ran for governor of Oaxaca and lost in a disputed election.  He ran in the 1929 Mexican presidential election, was defeated, claimed the results were rigged and developed his call to insurrection in his "Plan de Guaymas". The eminent historian Enrique Krauze, who is cited in several places in this article, claims that Vasconcelos would have won if the election had not been rigged in favour of Pascual Ortiz Rubio.
cosmic race Oaxaca Enrique Krauze Eagle Pass, Texas José Vasconcelos Piedras Negras, Coahuila English José Vasconcelos Calderón Mexica Diego Rivera 1929 Mexican presidential election Plan de Guaymas Pascual Ortiz Rubio mural Oaxaca, Oaxaca