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Benito Juárez (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) born Benito Pablo Juárez Garcia, was a Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served five terms as presidentof Mexico: 1858–1861 as interim, then 1861–1865, 1865–1867, 1867–1871 and 1871–1872 as constitutional president. He resisted the French occupation of Mexico, overthrew the Second Mexican Empire,restored the Republic, and used liberal efforts to modernize the country.
Benito Juárez was born on 21 March 1806 in a small adobe home in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, located in themountain range now known as the "Sierra Juárez". His parents, Marcelino Juárez and Brígida García, were peasants who both died of complications of diabetes when he was three years old. Shortly after, hisgrandparents died as well, and his uncle then raised him.[4][5] He described his parents as "indios de la raza primitiva del país," that is, "Indians of the original race of the country."[5] He worked inthe corn fields and as a shepherd until the age of 12, when he walked to the city of Oaxaca de Juárez to attend school.[3] At the time, he was illiterate and could not speak Spanish, only Zapotec.Juárez became a lawyer in 1834 and a judge in 1841. He was governor of the state of Oaxaca. He went into exile because of his objections to the corrupt military dictatorship of Antonio López de SantaAnna. He spent his exile in New Orleans, Louisiana, working in a cigar factory.
Today Benito Juárez is remembered as being a progressive reformer dedicated to democracy, equal rights for his nation'sindigenous peoples, his antipathy toward organized religion, especially the Catholic Church, and what he regarded as defense of national sovereignty. The period of his leadership is known in Mexicanhistory as La Reforma del Norte (The Reform of the North), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, the...