Vicente Guerrero

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Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña

Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (born August 10, 1782 in Tixtla (today Ciudad Guerrero ), Guerrero (Mexico) , † February 14, 1831 in Cuilápam , Oaxaca (murdered)) was a Mexican folk hero and one of the leaders of the Mexican rebels from 1812 the last years of the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821).

Life

Vicente Guerrero was the son of Pedro Guerrero, a mestizo from a wealthy family, and María de Guadalupe Saldaña, an African slave . Raised in a barrio of Tixtla (in the state of Guerrero , which was later named in his honor ), he was able to speak the language of dark-skinned minorities, which helped him politically. In his youth he was already active in his father's trading and transport company and got to know large parts of the country. In 1810 he joined the Mexican independence movement ( insurgentes ) around José María Morelos . Just two years later, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel in their army and conquered Oaxaca. After the failure of the independence movement and the execution of its leaders, he continued the war in the south of the country for a while.

In 1821 he made a successful pact with the Spanish-Mexican General Agustín de Iturbide to achieve independence. In the years 1823-1824 he was one of the three members of a Mexican junta government, from April to December 1829 then the second elected President of Mexico . However, he fell out with the ex-general and vice-president Anastasio Bustamante , at whose instigation his term of office had ended prematurely; the latter had him arrested on January 14, 1831 on a ship off Acapulco and - after a dubious trial - shot on February 14 in a suburb of Oaxaca.

Political attitudes

His political driving force was the equality of all people regardless of race - on September 16, 1829, he had slavery abolished in Mexico. He was a Freemason and Grand Master of the York Rite . His wife was Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero and he was a member of the Partido Popular . Because of his rural origins, he usually wore the clothes of the Chinacos .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon. 5th, revised and expanded new edition. Herbig, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7766-2478-7 .

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predecessor Office successor
Guadalupe Victoria President of Mexico
1829 		José María Bocanegra
personal data
SURNAME Guerrero, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerrero Saldaña, Vicente Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican folk hero and Chief Commander of the Mexican Army
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Tixtla (today Ciudad Guerrero ), Guerrero (Mexico)
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1831
Place of death Cuilápam , Oaxaca (murdered)