La veta orteguiana y franquista en las leyes orgánicas de la Universidad de Puebla, México, 1937 y 1941

Having regard the political history of education and the cultural history of ideas, in this paper I propose to explain the way in which local power obtained political control from the University and and I also want to show the presence of Spanish conservative thought, following the ideas of José Ortega y Gasset and the Francoists about the «mission» of the University. For this, on the one hand I describe the configuration of the new Mexican State and in the regional political context, the political and cultural consolidation of the avilacamachista chiefdom. Then, in a second moment, I describe and analyze the organic laws of the University passed in 1937 and 1941 and their respective exhibitions of reasons. What interests me to emphasize in the conclusions is the permanence in the University of traditional cultural practices identified with conservative thinking, not only due to legislation that in 1941 was proposed to «copy» the Francoist university model, but also thanks to the predominance of a group of Catholic militants whose sympathies for Franco were evident and also because chiefdom was able to control and reduce the political influence of other groups. The article is based on interviews with survivors of the time, archival and printed sources and biblio-hemerographic references.