Benito Juárez

Also known as Benito Pablo Juarez García

President of Mexico from 1858 to 1872

AI overview

Benito Juárez was President of Mexico during a transformative period from 1858 to 1872, a time that included major conflicts and reforms that shaped the nation. He is remembered as an important figure in Mexican history for his role during this era of significant change.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1806
Died: 1872
Works: 31

Top works

Los castigos nacionales
Correspondance de Juarez et de Montluc, ancien consul général du Mexique
Manifiesto justificativo de los castigos nacionales en Querétaro
La ley
El fusilamiento de Maximiliano de Hapsburgo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Pamplona

Discography

Entre palmeras2020
Luna Menguante2022
El ciclo del sol y el fin de los días2024

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12
Total plays: 30

via Last.fm · Benito Juárez

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Prospective identification of tumorigenic breast cancer cells
· 2003 · cited 8,334x
Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades
· 2008 · cited 7,837x
The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,775x
The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma
· 2013 · cited 4,492x
Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome
· 2002 · cited 3,818x

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Quotes

“Entre los Individuos, como entre Las Naciones, El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.”
“The government of the republic will fulfill its duty to defend its independence, to repel foreign aggression, and accept the struggle to which it has been provoked, counting on the unanimous spirit of the Mexicans and on the fact that sooner or later the cause of rights and justice will triumph.”
“Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm.”
“Adversity, Citizen Deputies, discourages none but contemptible peoples; ours has been ennobled by great feats and we are far from being shorn of the immense obstacles, material and moral, which the country will oppose…”
“There is no help but in defense but I can assure you... the Imperial Government will not succeed in subduing the Mexicans, and its armies will not have a single day of peace... we must stop them, not only for our country but for the respect of the sovereignty of the nations.”
“Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace. Under its auspices, the protection of the laws and of the authorities will be sufficient for all the inhabitants of the Republic. May the people and the government respect the rights of all. Between individuals, as between nations, peace means respect for the rights of others.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Benito Pablo Juárez García ( Latin American Spanish: [beˈnito ˈpaβlo ˈxwaɾes ɣaɾˈsi.a] ; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican politician, military officer, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in 1872. A Zapotec, he was the first Indigenous president of Mexico and the first democratically elected Indigenous president in postcolonial America. A member of the Liberal Party, he previously held a number of offices, including the governorship of Oaxaca and the presidency of the Supreme Court. During his presidency, he led the Liberals to victory in the Reform War and in the Second French intervention in Mexico.

Born in Oaxaca to a poor rural Indigenous family and orphaned as a child, Juárez passed into the care of his uncle, eventually moving to Oaxaca City at the age of 12, where he found work as a domestic servant. Sponsored by his employer, who was also a lay Franciscan, Juárez temporarily enrolled in a seminary and studied to become a priest, but later switched his studies to law at the Institute of Sciences and Arts, where he became active in liberal politics. He began to practice law and was eventually appointed as a judge, after which he married Margarita Maza, a woman from a socially distinguished family in Oaxaca City.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benito Juárez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.