1. Benito Juarez & The War Of The Reform
... law, and it was certainly not hard to develop the sense of injustice in Mexican society and of the need for reform that marked his career. Even as he entered politics in Oaxaca, successively being elected to the city council, state legislature, and eventually the governorship (1848), he found time to defend poor people exploited by members of the clergy who ... who was pushed out of his presidency by the French invasion; and from the United States. In 1865 the United States, with almost a million soldiers in the most powerful war machine in the world, began to pressure Napoleon III to g...
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