Zitácuaro, Michoacán.- Through a statement it was reported that the deputy Eduardo Orihuela Estefan, for the country to transit as a nation recovering the path that Ignacio López Rayón forged years ago in the installation of the Supreme American National Board.
The congressman as official speaker of the LXXIV Legislature, in Solemn Session, stressed the importance of asserting the legacy of the Supreme American Supreme Board, as the first government of independent Mexico, where elective democracy, and sovereignty was born ceased to be an exclusive attribute of one man, the king, and was exercised by a collegiate body.
Orihuela Estefan called to resume Rayón’s proposal and continue to fight for the equality of Mexicans, against social division and to conceive of education as the key to the progress of society, being the State, as at the time, who must guarantee that out of quality in equal terms.
He stated that Rayon and his men arrived at the Zitácuaro at the end of May 1811, here they found an ideal geographical location, soon after they arrived at this historic site, the illustrious men who would vote for the formalization of the Supreme National Board American. Finally, on the morning of August 19, 1811, 13 people gathered in the chapter hall of the village of Zitácuaro to agree to the installation of a governing body of the insurgency, and to elect by a plebiscite their leaders who would swear obedience to the government Established.
The Supreme American Supreme Board, installed in Zitácuaro, was and is the antecedent of the first government in the Independence stage, the division of the Public Power was born, and are exercised for the first time in Michoacán, the Executive in Zitácuaro, in Apatzingán the Legislative and in Ario de Rosales el Judicial; decisions were made arguing pros and cons, there was no room for improvisation and occurrences, the legislator said.
He stressed that the insurgent government successfully used journalism as an information and propaganda body. The Supreme Board published the newspaper El Ilustrator Nacional, as an instrument that allowed them to structure and disseminate the ideas of freedom and justice.
Finally, the parliamentarian recalled the journey, and the consolidation of the ideas of the Michoacano, originally from Tlalpujahua, Ignacio López Rayón, for his conviction and interest in serving for the birth of the homeland thinking of future generations, citizens educated in science and culture, where plurality is limited, contained and promoted since the Constitution.
