Originally posted by SeitseCiudad Juarez!
Hardly known outside the borders, but Benito Juarez, the first and only indigenous president of Mexico, was a great leader who all Latin America, in his time, regarded as a living hero.
* Won for the liberals the civil war against the conservatives.
* Was a president on the run, since he was chased by the conservative forces who invited Maximilian of Ha ...[text shortened]... f his family became rich.
* Up to this day, the freaking Catholic priests hate his guts, lol