Journalism and politics Bosques organized the First National Pedagogy Congress (Primer Congreso Nacional Pedagógico), and he worked as a journalist with several newspapers and publications. He subsequently served as a state legislator in Puebla and as a
federal deputy on two occasions: 1922–23 and again in 1934–1937. In the latter period, he belonged to a bloc of legislators supporting the new president, general
Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). He was the
President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1935. In 1938, he was the director of the government owned newspaper,
El Nacional.
Mexican Consul in France Bosques was stationed in France from 1939–1943, coinciding with most of
World War II, initially as Mexico's
Consul General. Fleeing the German occupation of
Paris in May 1940, Bosques was instructed by his government to organize a consulate to represent Mexico in Vichy France, which he set up in
Marseille. Once
Nazi Germany had occupied France and entrusted much of the governance of the country to Vichy France, he directed consular employees to issue a
visa to anybody wanting to flee to Mexico. Under his auspices, visas were issued to approximately 40,000 people, mostly Jews and
Spaniards. The Spaniards rescued were refugees from
Francoist Spain after the conclusion of the
Spanish Civil War in April 1939. Bosques rented a castle and a summer holiday camp in Marseilles to house refugees under the protection of what he maintained was Mexican territory under international law. Bosques' courageous initiatives and actions mirror those of two other consuls placed in similar situations in war-torn Europe, such as the Portuguese consul
Aristides de Sousa Mendes in
Bordeaux, France, and the Japanese consul
Chiune Sugihara in
Kaunas,
Lithuania. In 1943, Bosques, his family (wife and three children), and 40 consular staff members were arrested by the
Gestapo and detained in a "hotel-prison" in Germany for a year. He was released under an agreement between the German and Mexican governments after
Manuel Ávila Camacho (then President of Mexico from 1940–1946) made an exchange of prisoners with imprisoned German citizens.
Post-World War II Bosques and his family returned to Mexico in 1944. In the decades after his release from German captivity, he served as Ambassador of Mexico in several countries:
Portugal,
Finland,
Sweden and
Cuba. In 1962, during the
Cuban Missile Crisis, Bosques — who was both a personal friend of
Fidel Castro and the diplomatic representative of a neutral country trusted by the
United States, the
Soviet Union and Cuba, worked to facilitate communications between the disputants and bring Cuba into agreement with the "face-saving" agreements worked out between the two
nuclear powers. ==Personal life and death==