Narciso Bassols

Narciso Bassols García (October 22, 1897 – July 24, 1959) was a Mexican lawyer, socialist politician, ambassador to France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom,

Narciso Bassols, born in Tenango del Valle, State of Mexico, was an atheist As author of the Agrarian Law of 1927, Bassols fought for agrarian reform and is noted as stating of the long suffering Mayan people: "hundreds of infamies, deceptions, Socialist mystifications, mass murders, immortal and ostentatious corruptions, banquets of bureaucrats, and Roman orgies all practiced by Socialist compañeros."

National Autonomous University of Mexico Narciso Bassols presence at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) began in 1920 when he attended the university in pursuit of a law degree. Bassols believed that schools should rely less on the classics of Dewey, and more on practical skills and technical knowledge. Motivated partially by the onset of world recession in 1929, Bassols felt a greater emphasis should be placed on the teachings of better production methods for satisfaction of local needs. To accomplish this he began integrating the already existing normal schools, agricultural centers, and cultural missions into unitary "Regional Peasant Schools." O'Gorman was tasked with building 24 schools in the Federal District between 1932 and 1935, following the style he described as "eliminating all architectural style and executing constructions technically".

Bassols began to ban religious teachings in schools, and ordering the removal of religious iconography removed as well. In 1934, Bassols acted on the information and instituted Mexico's first systematic sex education program. In 1939, Bassols resigned the position, brought on by the news that Leon Trotsky had been granted asylum by Cárdenas, he is cited as feeling betrayed, at the time representing Mexico in talks in Geneva with Soviet foreign minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. The talks were called off as Litvinoff discovered that Trotsky had been granted asylum. In 1944, Bassols was assigned to be the Ambassador to the Soviet Union where he stood until his resignation in 1946.

Popular Socialist Party In June 1948, Bassols, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, founded the Popular Party , due to perceived corruption in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party . In 1949 the Popular Party participated in its first legislative elections in Sonora. The election was won, however the government refused to recognize the victory and instead offered the Popular Party a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Bassols condemned the situation, stating the Popular Party could not behave like the National Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Nacional, PAN), he is quoted as saying he would not accept "the crumbs of three or four seats." Lombardo however took a more conciliatory attitude, causing Bassols to separate from the group, abandoning his position as Vice President of the Popular Party. The Popular Party was later renamed in 1960 to the Popular Socialist Party .