Topic: Oaxaca

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Benito Juarez

Encyclopedia Britannica - 1179 days ago
July 18, 1872, Mexico City), national hero of Mexico, president of Mexico (1861-72), who, for three years (1864-67), fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic.. But the return of the ...