Múzquiz station

Neighbouring stations

• BLine BRío de los Remedios ← Múzquiz → Ecatepec

The story behind the icon

The station silhouette is the bust of Melchor Múzquiz, who was born in Coahuila in 1790.

In 1810 he left his studies to join the insurgent troops in Michoacán; in November 1816 he was captured in Córdoba, Veracruz, and taken to Puebla. There he was freed shortly before the proclamation of the Plan of Iguala and joined the Army of the Three Guarantees. He held several political posts, as a deputy in the Constituent Congress and three times as governor of the State of Mexico. In December 1828, after the Acordada riot, he took up arms, but was defeated.

In 1832 he replaced Anastasio Bustamante in the Presidency of the Republic and together with him tried to put down the Santa Anna revolt in favour of Gómez Pedraza. On 5 February 1832 his government was overthrown and he was demoted and withdrew from public life, though he took part in the country's political life as the most important figure of the State of Mexico, influencing its legislature to keep it in favour of the centralist Republic. He was president and member of the Supreme Conservative Power. He died in 1844 in Mexico City.