Chapter I (An interrupted revolution)
After the nomination of Lazaro Cardenas as the presidential candidate of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), he was thought by the chief party members to bring peace to Mexico, therefore harmony among the different military factions and civil organizations represented within the PNR. Such a political agreement was possible on account of earlier political purges that had ended up in successive military uprisings throughout the nation, though they were less bloody and brutal than previous conflicts. Therefore, when Cardenas took power in 1934, he was supposed to follow his party's instructions, carefully following the governmental and economic project that had been previously convened by the PNR's central body.
Amid this political transition, former villistas organized in 1933 an alike paramilitary organization dubbed the "Gold Shirts", sustaining then anti-communist and fascist ideas.