Luis Cabrera Lobato

Luis Cabrera
Cabrera in 1914
Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 14th district of Puebla
In office
13 July 1917 – 31 August 1918
Succeeded byConstantino Molina
Personal details
BornLuis Vicente Cabrera Lobato
(1876-07-17)17 July 1876
Zacatlán, Puebla
Died12 April 1954(1954-04-12) (aged 77)
SpouseGuillermina Nevraumont (1884–1968) / Elena Cosío
ChildrenMaría Luisa Inés/ José/ Guillermo / Mercedes / Jorge / Luis / Enrique / Daniel / Ramón
RelativesDaniel Cabrera
EducationLawyer
Alma materEscuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia (National School of Jurisprudence)
OccupationLawyer, politician, writer
Writing career
Pen nameLucas Rivera,
Lic. Blas Urrea
GenreEssays, poetry, professional literature, translations
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "imagesize". Replace with "image_size".

Luis Vicente Cabrera Lobato (17 July 1876 – 12 April 1954) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and writer. His pen name for his political essays was Lic. Blas Urrea; his more literary works appeared under the name of Lucas Rivera. During the late presidency of Porfirio Díaz, he was a vocal critic of the regime. He became an important civilian intellectual in the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920).

He was a co-founder of the Anti-Re-electionist Party, which backed the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero, and when armed revolutionaries forced Díaz to resign, he counseled Madero not to make a deal with the old regime. During the Madero administration, he drafted a reform land law, which Madero did not sign. After Madero's murder in the February 1913 coup d'état, Cabrera was a key civilian adviser to the Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza. He retired from politics following Carranza's ouster and murder in 1920.