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5 unusual facts about Benito Juarez


Benito Juárez, Buenos Aires

The town and its Partido are named after former Mexican President Benito Juárez, the name was chosen to make a gesture of friendship between Argentina and Mexico.

Benito Juárez, D.F.

This line cuts east-west through the borough connecting Mixcoac to Tlahuac.

The main archeological finds of the area are Aztec/Mexica and include those in Mixcoac, Actipan, Tlacoquemécatl, Xoco, Portales, Ticomán, La Piedad, Ahuehuatlan, Barrio de San Juan, San Pedro de los Pinos Acachinaco (Nativitas) and one at the Metro Zapata station.

Giacomo Leopardi

In "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth part of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia is extensively quoted by a television psychic named Florita Almada who somewhat confuses it for an account of the early life of Benito Juárez.

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian

He faced significant opposition from forces loyal to the deposed president Benito Juárez throughout his reign, and the Empire collapsed after Napoleon withdrew French troops in 1866.


Agnes Salm-Salm

Agnes Salm-Salm (December 25, 1844 – December 21, 1912) was the American wife of Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, a Prussian mercenary beside whom she played a role in the American Civil War, the Mexican Civil War between President Benito Juárez and the Austrian archduke Maximilian I of Mexico, and the Franco-Prussian War.

Anthony George

Set at a mission in South Texas, Sugarfoot learns of a mysterious plot to assassinate Mexican President Benito Juarez.

Guillermo Prieto

He was minister of finance (hacienda) under Presidents Mariano Arista, Juan Álvarez and Benito Juárez.

Juarez-Lincoln High School

Benito Juarez-Abraham Lincoln High School is a Texas UIL Class 5A high school in the La Joya Independent School District named after two iconic presidents: Benito Juarez of Mexico, and Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States.

McLane–Ocampo Treaty

Although U.S. President James Buchanan strongly favored the arrangement, and Mexican President Benito Juárez badly needed the money to finance the war he was waging against the Conservative Party, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

Melchor Ocampo

Although presidents Juárez and Buchanan were both in favour of the arrangement, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate on account of the impending Civil War in the United States.

Melchor Ocampo, Nuevo León

It is named after Don Melchor Ocampo, who was Foreign Minister during the government of Benito Juárez.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua

Because of the laws promulgated by the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, the Constitution of 1857 and the Mexican Revolution, which, taken together, had the effect of disenfranchising the Catholic clergy and large swaths of Catholic laity, studying for the priesthood became a difficult proposition for candidates in Chihuahua, and, indeed, in all of Mexico.


see also

Nuestra Belleza San Luis Potosí 2011

Nuestra Belleza San Luis Potosí 2011, was held at the Teatro “Benito Juárez” in Cedral, San Luis Potosí on July 15, 2011.