Genaro Estrada (June 2, 1887 – September 29, 1937) was a Mexican

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, and

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. He was Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico between 1930 and 1932 and the architect of the

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, which stated that the Mexican government would acknowledge any foreign government, no matter how it came into power. This doctrine would influence Mexican politics all throughout the 20th century.

Biography

Estrada was born in

Mazatlán Mazatlán () is a city in the Mexican list of states of Mexico, state of Sinaloa. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding , known as the Mazatlán Municipality. It is located on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast across from th ...

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexic ...

. He served as a journalist in Mazatlán early in life and moved to

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in 1912, where he was professor at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and entered the capital's cultural and political life. He became involved in government after the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution () was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It saw the destruction of the Federal Army, its ...

. By the end of the 1920s he served as

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to Spain and minister to Portugal and

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. He later became professor at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

, where he founded the

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. He also published a novel, ''Pero Galín'' (1926), and four books of

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and political poetry. He died in Mexico City in 1937.

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* 1887 births 1937 deaths Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico 20th-century Mexican historians Mexican male novelists Mexican male poets Writers from Sinaloa People from Mazatlán Ambassadors of Mexico to Portugal Ambassadors of Mexico to Spain Ambassadors of Mexico to Turkey 20th-century Mexican poets 20th-century Mexican male writers Burials at the Panteón de Dolores {{Mexico-poet-stub

Biography

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