Arturo, me ganaste con el comentario.
Indeed, all those presidents that you mentioned had indigenous or
african roots. However, as I understand, the mother of Porfirio
Diaz, Petrona Mori, was actually a Mixteca indian. A while ago, in
Mexico, I bought four interesting magazines that talked, in detail,
about the life of all the presidents of Mexico. I need to reread
those pages, but I clearly remember the data that you mention. Also,
Plutarco Elias Calles, the one ruling Mexico during the cristero
war, had northern african ancestors.
I'll check the biographies, and will try to put some interesting
information on mexican presidents.
Steve Apodaca
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@v...>
wrote:
>
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, latina1955@a... wrote:
> > It is of no surprise that there has been no Mexican President
with
> obvious
> > Indian/African heritage (except one)....even President Fox can
place
> all his
> > ancestry coming from Europe...
> >
> > Esperanza
> > Chicagoland area
>
> There have actually been a number of presidents in Mexico of
Indian and
> African heritage...
>
> Benito Juarez, Zapotec Indian
> Porfirio Diaz, Zapotec Indian
> Victoriano Huerta, Huichol Indian from Colotlan
> Vicente Guerrero (el negro), Mulatto
>
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