Focusing on the Independence, Reform, Revolution Panel of Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito, explore the Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (1782-1831) about the 1. The War of Independence (1810–21).
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (1782-1831) The image below of Vicente Guerrero replicates one of the most famous paintings of him. However other images exist of Guerrero that are far less flattering. And one should not assume that the images by Arturo García Bustos, like other images of historical characters painted by Bustos, are true representation.  However, the images used in the mural closely reflect popular depictions of this history maker and others.
Guerrero's father was Afro-Mexican and his mother indigenous, making Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's only afro-mestizo president. During the War of Independence, Guerrero became a military leader, and he was one of the few to escape execution during the war. After the war, in 1831, he was executed at Cuilápam de Guerrero, just 10 kilometers from Oaxaca where he had been tried. This happened, after he had been president of Mexico for only eight months.
Afro-Mexicans played an important role in the War of Independence. Below President Vicente Guerrero points out a proclamation abolishing slavery on September 16, 1829, one of his crowning achievements. Slavery formally ended in 1837 in Mexico.Note that in the image above that the tower behind Guerrero bears a strong resemblance to those of the Ex-monastery of Santiago in Cuilapan de Guerrero.
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