Benito Juárez is a Mexican national hero, part of Mexican folklore and a man generally considered to be one of the country's 'untouchables', along with the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Catholic Church and the matriach.
Airports, towns, villages, cities, mountain ranges and universities all over Mexico bear the name of this great 'man-of-the-people', a man who came from the bottom and rose to the top.
But just how much of this adulation and hero-worship does he really deserve?
Benito Juárez - Born into Poverty in Oaxaca
Benito Pablo Juárez Garcia was born in the poor southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in 1806. Orphaned at the age of four, uneducated until the age of 12, he went on to become the first fully indigenous president of Mexico in 1858. He served five terms of office before his death from a heart attack, at his desk in the Presidential Palace, in 1872.
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