This article refers to the mural painted at the “Francisco Giner de los Ríos” primary school located in the central zone of Mexico City, and painted by Gabriel García Maroto. After forming a friendship with the Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca and collaborating on the magazine Índice [Index] (promoted by Alfonso Reyes), García Maroto arrived in Mexico for the first time in 1928. [In the mural he painted at Francisco Giner de los Rios school, there were] seven panels distributed throughout the ground floor, the stairwell, and the first floor. They touched on the themes of education, social struggle, poverty, religion, the beauty of the landscape, and the future that would permit the construction of new generations who were conscious of their role in society. The Russian revolution influenced his depiction of a workers’ demonstration (men, women, children with red flags, an image of Lenin, smokestacks and factories). On the other side of the mural, there are a great number of references to contrasts of Spain: extreme poverty, indifference, Catholic elements, and a nude woman as an allegory of the country’s suffering. A multitude of red flags, construction workers, and rural and urban landscapes appear in addition to the portraits of Francisco Giner de los Ríos (1864-1915), who distinguished himself as an educator; Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1935), the writer and philosopher; and the socialist politician Pablo Iglesias Posse (1850-1925), founder and leader of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español [PSOE, Socialist Spanish Workers’ Party].