In 1934, a young male worker at a sugar factory in Mexico was assassinated by gunfire during a strike. The worker's body lay in the street on the ground, rivers of blood flowing from his head and face.

  　In 1934, workers at a sugar factory in Mexico went on strike. In response, a shot was suddenly fired and a young male worker was assassinated. The worker lay on the ground, rivers of blood flowing from his head and face. A stretched hand unclenched a loosely clenched fist, the folds of his shirt, the flag in the corner of his frame, the spilled blood, all were the corpse of the murdered male worker. The worker's faceless eyes stared calmly to the heavens.

　Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Manuel Alvarez Bravo) happened upon a labor dispute and photographed the corpse of a worker assassinated during a strike. He implied the transience of human life and death. This photo shows a union leader shot and killed during a labor dispute at a sugar factory in Mexico. A flash remained in the worker's eye as light reflected off the pool of blood at the corner of his eye. Bravo transformed the image from a representation of death to a photograph of politically motivated murder. Without denying the worker's neat face and dignity, he captured the bloody worker lying on the street, assassinated. Neither heroes nor martyrs, the photographs suggested, but only victims. 

　In Mexico in 1934, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PNR), a permanent political institution, chose Lázaro Cárdenas, a revolutionary general from Michoacán, as its presidential candidate. However, soon after Cárdenas took office, conflicts began between Cárdenas and former president (1928-1934) Plutarco Elias Calles. Carrenández was supportive and tolerant of labor unions, especially strikes. Callez organized violent methods and fascists. He was especially close to the Gold Shirts, led by General Nicholas Rodriguez Carrasco, who harassed communists, Jews, and Chinese.

　Cardenas began to isolate Calles politically by removing him from political posts and expelling his most powerful allies. Calles was charged with conspiracy to blow up the railroad, arrested by order of President Cárdenas, and deported to the United States on April 9, 1936, in the custody of Mexican soldiers and police officers.