translated from Spanish: Contra Juárez | THE DEBATE

In 1871, as things did not go well for the government of Benito Juárez, the Congress of the Union issued a law supposedly to fight the plagiarios and robbers, but in reality had been created to fight those who had risen against the Benemér Ito for his long tenure at the forefront of the Mexican presidency. There were certainly sheaves of bandits who took advantage of the hot political climate in the country to make their own, but there were as many as the inconforms who walked in the mountains throwing bullets in Against Juarez. On June 13, 1871, the deputies Sinaloa protested by a federal law issued on May 8, because it violated the sovereignty of the States, by expressing in its fourth fraction: “It is illegitimate any meeting which, with the character of tables, schools Electoral and deputies gathered in previous meetings, will not be subjected for its installation and other acts, with the prescriptions of the respective organic law, regulations of the Congress in its case and other laws so that with this object it is issue; Being, consequently, null all acts. Those who are separated from an electoral college to form another in different places, will be punished for four years with the same penalty and by the same authority that expresses the previous provision. ” And there was Don Eustache Buelna. 



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