Happy Birthday, Mexico’s greatest president Benito Jurez

Every March 21, Mexico celebrates the birth of the Benito Jurez, the president’s hero and the president Jabodac boy Mexican is the symbol of everything. School students memorize his words, politicians demand his name, and his fierce face is raging from idols around the country. If you have a peso, now your pocket may have a Penito Jurez.

San Pablo Kualada, born in 1806, was born in a small village of Okshaka, a very quiet place to hear a tortilla flip from a mile. He spoke only Jabodac until he was 12 years old. He was an orphan at the age of three, and he was a quiet, serious boy by all accounts.

But he learned Spanish. He studied law. Then, somehow, he won his humble beginning and changed the fate of a nation. He became president five times, not twice. He fought the European invaders. He pushed the reforms to bring power in the hands of the people. He did all of it with the attractiveness of the accountant.

A turbulent start in politics

Jurace traveled to a roller coaster to become the unwavering leader of Mexico. He was involved in Liberal Party politics at the beginning of his life, and in 1848 was elected as the governor of his home state, and in this role he became the enemy of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. When Santa Anna was last to come to power in 1853, Jurez was imprisoned and deported for her liberal comments. This is not the first time he is running in the coming years.

Jurez fled to New Orleans, where he spent two years of vague, worked as a cigarette producer, conspiring with other liberals of Mexico, and the right time to return home. In 1855, when Santa Anna was thrown into the Ayutla Revolution, Jurez returned to the Minister of Justice. The new Liberal government to design the future of Mexico.

La reform and the Constitution of 1857

Jurez, in his center, was a reformer. He believed that laws, institutions, after all, the idea that a country belongs to his people, not in the church or a few elite. He pushed the reform of the church and the state to confiscate the native lands belonging to the church and communalism, and tried to change Mexico as a modern republic, kicking and screaming. The section of the Liberal Party’s Jurezes Written the Constitution of 1857These rules are incorporated into the Iron Act of the Land.

Naturally, this has made a lot of powerful people very angry. The Catholic Church, which had been running things for some time, suddenly saw itself at the end of history. Conservative elite wanted to obey their peasants and illiterate, and saw Jurez as a dangerous man. When the ruling class of Mexico is embarrassed, history says they usually do something tough.

Reform war and the second French intervention

In December 1857, the Conservatives agitated against the new constitution, and the liberal President Ignacio Comanford appealed to the overthrow of his own government. Mxico drowned in the civil war. As the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the presidency legally presented the Liberal Government to the Liberal Government on Conservatives in 1860, and won the presidential election in 1861. But the conservatives have not yet been defeated, and they still have a trick.

Enter Maxilian van HubburgA well -dressed Austrian sent by Napoleon III to rule Mexico. With the support of Mexican Conservatives, France founded the Maximilian as Emperor, suddenly Jurez fled a government and chased throughout Mexico.

Did Juresh surrender? No. Did he make an agreement as Maximian gave him? Not entirely. Instead, he waged a guerrilla war against Conservatives and French. When the waves turned and the Maxilian was finally captured, Jurez tried him and executed him. Not deported, no second opportunities. A shooting and clear message: Mexico is no longer a European colony.

Zurace won. He fought for democracy, for the people, and for the government that was free from corruption and foreign influence. But then the tricky part came: governance at peace.

Retrieved Republic

Like many great revolutionaries before him, Jurez found that it was more difficult than running a country. His reforms, such as the Lerdo Act, were to break the communalist lands for the creation of private assets and the economy – in fact, the wealthy landowners and speculators bought new lands.

While in principle is noble, these reforms often alienate people rather than uniting. The rural poor, many of them joined Jurez’s forces during the war, and under his leadership, their lives were not seen. The church was injured, but still powerful, continued to oppose him. His enemies in the government accused him of sticking in power, ignoring disagreement, and that he was a dictatorship like the men he fought against.

However, Jurez was re -elected, often resisting strong opposition from other liberals. He focused on power in ways he even narrowed his allies. Some of his close supporters have withdrawn in 1871 against his government, in which Portio Thiaz, General, then ruled Mexico as a dictator for more than 30 years. The revolutionaries have become the founder. Like many before him, Jurez began to look less like a serious reformer and a man who could not simply leave.

Benito Jurez is still kicking

In 1872, Jurez died of a heart attack on his desk. However, his legacy refused to rest. Today, Benito Jurez is recalled that Abraham Lincoln of Mexico is the man of the people who believed in justice and equality. His face is in money. His birthday is a national holiday.

Still Mexico argues him. They argue about his reforms, his decisions, and his stubbornness. Some call him a hero. Others, a tyrant. They feel that his struggles are still in Mexico. In some ways, the wars he fought – between the rich and the poor, liberal and conservative, progress and tradition – has never ended.