Guerrero station
Metro · 3 B Line 3 and Line B
Lines and neighbouring stations
- 3Line 3Tlatelolco Guerrero Hidalgo
- BLine BBuenavista Guerrero Garibaldi / Lagunilla
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The story behind the icon
The station image shows the silhouette of General Vicente Guerrero in the military dress of the men of the Independence.
General Vicente Guerrero was born in the state that now bears his name on 10 August 1782. Guerrero won important victories, such as that of 15 September 1818 in the town of Tamo, where he stripped the Spanish general Armijo of his weaponry; other victories of his were those of Tetela del Río, Huetamo, Santa Fe, Axuschitlan, Cutzamala, Tlechapa and Cuaulotitlán. The alarm these reverses caused in the Spanish army led the viceroy to send Guerrero's own father to him as an emissary, to try to persuade him to give up the struggle. When Guerrero received his father he told him: the Fatherland comes first. He later withdrew to the south, where, betrayed by a man named Picaluga, he was seized and shot at Cuilapan, Oaxaca, on 14 February 1831.
History proclaims this general the successor of such great heroes as Hidalgo, Allende, Abasolo, Morelos, Mina and Bravo, and hails him as the true achiever of Independence.