According to this site, the song was composed and written in 1924 by Juan Arozamena Sánchez (1899-1926) and performed for the 1st time on July 5th 1924 by the "Cuarteto de los Hermanos Gómez" in the "Variedades Payret" theather, La Habana, Cuba. About author's right in Mexico, check this: as the author died in 1926 the copyright length is author's life +75 years = till 2001.