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on the American Revolution podcast. You're going to do you. Three years before Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, Benito Juarez was born in Mexico.

Ohaka, Mexico, the town not far from Mexico City.

And at just about the same time, both would become presidents of their respective countries and

they would both be considered politically perhaps on the social politics side

liberal.

Juarez, who was Mexico's first president of indigenous blood, took over as a result of a civil

war in Mexico between conservatives and liberal,

a conflict that really had dogged the nation since its independence in 1820.

And through the troubles in Texas, the annexation of Texas by America, and the Mexican war defeat.

In 1861, wars as elected president, but the war that had damaged Mexico's infrastructure crippled its economy took its toll.

Plus he had to give anesty to captured conservatives that he had fought against who were still resisting his government, who had

executed some of his generals and friends. He established a rural police force, the

rallies, who were sometimes under his control and sometimes not.

It was an ugly civil war and some of the people who had rallied Duwares's side were little more

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