Noé de la Flor Casanova


Noé de la Flor Casanova was a Mexican lawyer, cantautor, writer, poet and politician who served for four years as Governor of Tabasco, before being removed from office following a scandal.

Life and work

De la Flor y Casanova was the son of Manuel de la Flor Hernández, a master tailor, and Elodia Casanova de de la Flor, the family was extremely poor. After completing primary school in Teapa he moved to Villahermosa to attend the Instituto Juárez, a preparatory school founded by Manuel Sánchez Mármol. With a scholarship, obtained for him by José Vasconcelos at the request of fellow Tabascan Carlos Pellicer, De la Flor Casanova enrolled in the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. After obtaining a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1930 he served in the following judicial posts: Secretary of the Criminal Courts in the Federal District from 1930–36; professor at the National Law School, UNAM, 1937–46; Justice of the Peace, 1937–39; Judge of the Superior Tribunal of Justice of the Federal Territories, 1940–42, 1946-58. He was Governor of Tabasco from 1943–46 and was removed from office following a scandal, the details of which remain obscure. He was also a founding member of the Socialist Lawyers Front of Mexico. He was, as a result of his writings, associated, in the minds of some, with a modern current of libertinage érudit.

Published works