24 August 2015

NYC #45: Bryant Park (2), Benito Juárez

'BENITO JUÁREZ
1806–1872
PRESIDENT OF MÉXICO (1858–1872)
BORN IN GUELATAO, OAXACA, OF HUMBLE ORIGINS, JUÁREZ ESTABLISHED
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC. IN 1867, HE DEFEATED
THE FRENCH INVASION, THUS PRESERVING THE INDEPENDENCE OF MÉXICO.
GIFT FROM THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF OAXACA, MÉXICO TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK.'

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