José María Pino Suárez (politician)

José María Pino Suárez

José María Pino Suárez , (born September 25, 1869 in Tenosique , † February 22, 1913 in Mexico City ), was a Mexican politician, lawyer, poet and journalist. From 1911 until his assassination in 1913 he was the seventh and last Vice President of Mexico . After him, the office of vice-president was abolished.

Life

Born in Tabasco state , Pino Suárez went to study law in Mérida , Yucatán, where his family came from. After graduating, he founded a law firm in Mexico City in 1896 and also began writing poetry.

In 1904 he returned to Yucatán and founded the newspaper El Peninsular there, with which he wanted to draw the public's attention to the social grievances in Yucatán.

In 1910 he joined the presidential candidate Francisco I. Madero , who fought the dictatorship of long-time President Porfirio Díaz from his North American exile. Pino Suárez worked on the San Luis Potosí plan, which invalidated the 1910 presidential election due to electoral fraud and called on the Mexicans to overthrow President Díaz on November 20, 1910. As a result, uncoordinated uprisings and military clashes between maderist rebels and government troops broke out in northern and southern Mexico.

On May 10th, the combined troops of Pascual Orozco and Pancho Villa captured the border town of Ciudad Juárez . This led to ceasefire negotiations between the government and the insurgents. Pino Suárez was one of the main negotiators and signatories of the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, which led to the resignation of President Porfirio Díaz on May 25, 1911 and the end of his thirty years of dictatorship. He was then governor of the Yucatán for a short time, but was soon elected vice-president of the country in the extraordinary elections of October and November 1911. In 1912 he also took over the Ministry of Education and Art. During the Decena Trágica from February 9 to 19, 1913, he was captured together with President Madero by General Victoriano Huerta in the National Palace and forced to resign. Shortly afterwards, both were murdered.

Since 1986 his body has been resting in the “Retonda de las Personas Ilustres” on the Panteón Civil de Dolores in Mexico City.

family

In 1896 Pino Suárez married María Camara Vales, with whom he had six children. In 1969 he was posthumously awarded the Medalla Belisario Domínguez del Senado de la República , which his widow received on his behalf.