Pedro Lascuráin Pedro Lascuráin Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes (8 May 1856 – 21 July 1952) was a Mexican politician who served as the 34th President of Mexico for less than one hour on February 19, 1913, the shortest presidency in the history of the world. He had earlier served as Mexico's foreign secretary for two terms and was the director of a small law school in Mexico City for sixteen years. Lascuráin was born in Mexico City in 1856. He was the son of Francisco Lascuráin Icaza and Ana Paredes Cortés. Lascuráin received a law degree
Bahá'í Faith in Mexico Mexicans were part of an observance in Costa Rica for the death of May Maxwell. After starting plans in January 1941 for a radio broadcast by Ford covering Central and South America the broadcast was successfully accomplished 26 November 1941. Meanwhile, a Pedro Espinosa is noted from Mexico City talking at the Bahá'í Center in New York in June 1943. By 1942 another assembly had been elected in the town of Puebla though it failed to re–elect in 1943. An All–American Convention, that is to say North and South, for the Bahá'ís was held in 1944 with Carlos Vergara as