Benito Juárez was born to an indigenous family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, in 1806; during most of his childhood, he only spoke Zapotec. In the city of Oaxaca, he lived with his sister who was a servant at the house of Don Antonio Maza. He studied at the Santa Cruz Seminary, the only secondary school in Oaxaca.




Benito Juárez later studied Law at the Instituto de Ciencias y Artes. He became a member of Oaxaca Town Council in 1831, and a local congressional representative in 1833. For some time, he worked as a lawyer, defending indigenous communities. After General Paredes Arrillaga was removed from the presidency, Juárez became a federal representative, and was responsible for approving the loan that Gómez Farías had requested from the Church (1847) to finance the war with the United States of America.


As Governor of his home state (1847), Juárez sought to establish a balanced economy and carried out numerous public works: roads, the reconstruction of the......

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