ABSTRACT
Manuel Gomez Morin worked as a lawyer for most of his life and took important positions in both the private and public sector, including work for the Bank of Mexico, for the federal government, and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The speech reprinted was made in 1940, at the close of the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas, and it can be understood as a denunciation of the policies and practices by which the Cardenas presidency distinguished itself, and a more general denunciation of the path taken by the Mexican Revolution. Once having defeated the military, political, and economic resistance that opposed itself to the solution of the problem, Mexico waited in vain for resolution. The usual system of false Mexican democracy has been that it is the Government who elects.
