Since the Constitution of 1857 He had a liberal cut, the conservatives promulgated the Tacubaya plan, in which Comonfort agreed with them, giving a coup d'etat and imprisoning Juarez, starting the Reform war In early 1858.
Juarez fled to Panama, but returned in May 1858 to establish his government in Veracruz. There, he issued the Reform Laws and proclaimed a more radical constitution, recognized by the United States, winning the reform war in 1860.
However, the economic difficulties through which the country passed Juarez To suspend the payment of the external debt, so France, in union with the conservatives, Mexico invaded in 1863 and imposed the Maximilian archduke of Austria as emperor of Mexico.
Given this situation, Benito Juárez He retired to the north to organize the resistance, which would succeed after the site of Querétaro in 1867 and would end the Maximilian shooting on June 19 on the Cerro de Campanas.
Juarez He was re -elected for the seventh time in August 1867 as president, restoring the Federal Republic and the reform laws. However, Porfirio Díaz proclaimed the Noria plan along with Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada to prohibit the re -election of presidents, which would ironically end in the Diaz dictatorship.
When is the birth of Benito Juárez commemorated?
Benito Juárez He died in 1872 due to heart dysfunctions, however, Congress declared him Benemérito de la Patria and de las Américasthanks to its ideals of social justice and Mexican liberalism in the nineteenth century.
Therefore, each March 21in addition to the start of the spring station, the birth of Benito Juárez In Mexico, whose phrase: «Respect for others, is peace,» He has crossed borders.