 President Lázaro Cárdenas was fundamental to recover some of the social control that was lost during the Revolution and the following economic meltdown in the United States.However, Cárdenas was followed by a series of less-talented leaders that were unable to continue this path and establish an effective rule of law on Mexican society.Moreover, Cárdenas presidency happened before the UN focused on states as the rule in the 1940s and 1950s.