Benito Juarez, the first president indigenous of Mexico, was born in the tiny zapotèque community from Guelatao, in the north of the town of Oaxaca, on March 21, 1806. He lived in this agricultural village until age the twelve years, after which he took the direction of Oaxaca, firmly given to receive education wanted to devote his life to help the poor communities autochtones, of which his.
In Oaxaca, it was made employ as servant in the family of a certain Antonio Salanueva, who supported it in these efforts. The weather initially was studies with the seminar, then in Instituto de Ciencias there Artes, where it made its right. It was accepted lawyer and obtained a seat with the congress the same year, in 1834. From 1847 to 1852, Juarez was governor of the state of Oaxaca, after which it was exiled in the United States by the Mexican president of then, Santa Anna, because of its liberal ideas. It then took share with the revolution of Ayutla, so known under the name of war of the Reform, and, when the group to which it belonged was finally carried to the capacity, according to one decade punctuated of conflicts and French interventions, Benito Juarez took the head of the country during five years, that is to say until its death in 1872.
Benito Juarez remains a hero in Oaxaca, in particular thanks to its reforms progressists, and almost all the localities of the state have a street which bears its name.