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Juárez station

Metrobús · 3 4S Line 3 and Line 4S San Lazaro

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The station icon represents the silhouette of Benito Juárez. The station takes its name from a nearby avenue of the same name, and is also a transfer station with Line 3 of the STC Metro. Benito Juárez was born on 21 March 1806 in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca. Of indigenous descent, he lost his parents Marcelino Juárez and Brígida García when he was three years old. He studied at the Seminary of Santa Cruz, the only secondary school then in Oaxaca, and later read Law at the Institute of Sciences and Arts.

He was a councillor of the Oaxaca city council in 1831 and a local deputy in 1833, and married Margarita Maza in 1843. When Paredes Arrillaga was overthrown as president, Juárez was elected federal deputy and it fell to him to approve the loan Gómez Farías had requested from the Church in 1847 to finance the war against the United States. As governor of his home state he pursued economic balance and carried out public works. When Santa Anna returned to power many liberals were banished, Juárez among them; meanwhile, in 1854, the Plan of Ayutla was proclaimed, refusing to recognise Santa Anna as president. When Santa Anna fell and Juan Álvarez came to the presidency, Juárez was named Minister of Justice and Public Instruction in 1855, and from that ministry he issued the so-called Juárez Law, which abolished the special courts and privileges enjoyed by the military and the clergy. Named governor of Oaxaca, he called elections in which he was re-elected.

In his state he promulgated the Constitution of 1857; he was named Minister of the Interior and later elected president of the Supreme Court of Justice during the government of President Comonfort. When the latter disowned the Constitution of 1857 and staged a coup, he imprisoned various citizens, Juárez among them, an act that set off the War of the Reform. Released in 1858, he assumed the presidency in Guanajuato by operation of law, and in 1859 he issued the Reform Laws that mark the separation of Church and State. At the close of the War of the Reform he was constitutionally elected to continue in the presidency on 15 June 1861. Because of the French intervention and the establishment of the empire in 1863, he had to leave Mexico City, governing from different points around the country and organising the resistance; he returned in 1867 after Maximilian was tried and executed.

For his defence of human liberties, which served as an example to other Latin American countries, he was proclaimed "Benemérito de las Américas". In 1867 he was re-elected President of Mexico and in 1871 he was re-elected for the last time. On 18 July 1872 he died suddenly of angina pectoris; his remains rest in the mausoleum of the San Fernando cemetery

What's near Juárez

  • Teatro Metropólitan