Lázaro Cárdenas, Jalisco

Prior to 1937, the area was known as Rancho 'El Camichín', a land grant owned by Jesús Rosas. The land was donated by Rosas with the purpose of constructing a townsite. Many of the people residing in the nearby town of San Jerónimo, migrated to acquire lands in the town. The town was officially established with a document[1] signed on April 9, 1937 by the governor and residents dictating that the new name would be "Lázaro Cárdenas", in honor of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, President of Mexico from Michoacán (1934–1940).

After the farmers settled, they built temporary grass huts known as chosas,[2] and later constructed permanent adobe homes. At first, the townsite resembled a long isosceles triangle which was called la manga, or "the sleeve". The town is conveniently located between Ipazoltic and San Martín de Hidalgo, the municipal seat.

The First Families They were these:

Manuel Quirarte, Candelario Rosas Rubio, Miguel Ramos Tapia, Catarino Quintero Calderon, Claudio Guardado Ramos, Petra Medina, Vidal Medina, Felipe Calderón.

Those who arrived later to the distribution of lands. Santos Guardado Ramos, Emiliano Quirarte , Eluterio Gómez and María Flores, Francisco Quintero and Ventura Gómez, Candelario Guardado Ramos his wife Luisa Preciado, Ricardo Quintero Díaz y Asunción Becerea Gómez, Andrés Diaz y Jeronima Rodríguez papás de José Diaz, Miguel Ramos y su esposa Florencia Flores, Ramon Gutiérrez Gómez y María Jiménez.

In the words of Uncle Rafael Guardado remembers when they came from the San Jeronimo .. The Barbosas, in donkeys with baskets of piscar where they brought their things, also remember that Vidal Medina had a career in which he came from San Jerónimo which is currently the ranch. Rafael Guardado tells in detail that there was a lot of guizapol where he arrived, he says he was born in the San José hacienda, there are still vestiges of that hacienda in the barbosas where they used to call him the Tavern, the owner of those lands at that time was a man called Gustavo Cedano.

Rafael Guardado says that the houses were made there later and this Mr. Gustavo charged the lots or his widowed wife as they tell sold for 4 old Mexican Pesos, these lots were marked or made by my uncle Claudio Guardado with Bueyes, he marked the streets and the lots that now we know As we all know these families lived in San Jerónimo (Los Barbosas), who had their families there and went down to the wasteland that is now Lazaro Cárdenas in honor of Gral. Lázaro Cárdenas del Río that in that time from 1934 to 1940 until the Reformation was promulgated Agrarian.

A LITTLE HISTORY OF MEXICO. During the government of General Lázaro Cárdenas, from 1934 to 1940, the oil expropriation was decreed on March 18, 1938, as well as the Agrarian Reform, which was of great benefit to the peasants and much detrimental to the then landowners who they owned many lands, distributed many lands among the peasants, created the Ejidal Credit Bank, protected at all times the rights of the working class, intensified the education of the peasants, visited many henequen estates and shook the hearts of the hacendados; if one of them had more land, even if it was already cultivated with henequen, he took half of it and handed it over to the workers, so that the latter could form their ejidos, or leaving the landowners the smallest part as a small property.

There were places where the owners removed all the schools. That is why it was all this mobilization of our ancestors towards Cárdenas. tío Rafa They had houses with sticks and branches, in the plot of my grandfather candelario that was where they were first where the ranch was first founded, where crosses the stream that comes from Ipazoltic from there they got the water they needed, and after they measured the lots says that everyone grabbed the lots and each one of their own where they started to build as they could those who could do it with Adobe brick, the ones with sticks and branches, and then everyone made their waterhole.

The first days they say they took turns taking care of them at gunpoint so they would not be taken away, because at that time they were distributing land. Uncle Claudio Guardado was the one who measured the lots of each people who were there, it was a lot of suffering that many of us now do not appreciate the value of what our ancestors had to go through. Who likes to add information put it and here we are part of our history, because it says a saying who does not know its history is condemned to repeat it, so let's see the unity and the efforts they made for what today is our small ranch.

ATTENTION CHEMA GUARDADO RAMOS

As of the INEGI census of 2005, there were 235 people residing in Lázaro Cárdenas. 115 of them being male, and 120 of them being female.

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20110722225459/http://galileo.inegi.gob.mx/CubexConnector/validaDatos.do?geograficaE=140770012

Seal of Lázaro Cárdenas https://ibb.co/3yWQchC