Biography Of Vicente Guerrero

Vicente Guerrero Saldaña (1782-1831), was a hero, politician and liberator of the time of the independence of Mexico. He was born in a place called Tixtla (where today is the state of Guerrero) on August 10, 1782, and his parents were Mr. Pedro Guerrero and Mrs. María Guadalupe Saldaña, Vicente Guerrero was a mulatto on his mother's side. His life began in the fields as a peasant and as a muleteer.

His status as a muleteer allowed him to handle weapons and learn practical engineering, an aspect that he would later use in his military career.

Even being a mulatto, Vicente Guerrero carried out the basic studies of the time, paid for by his father and educated by private tutors, (another aspect that benefited him due to his status as a muleteer).

His life as a military man arose from the hand of Hermenegildo Galeana, who sought troops by order of José María Morelos y Pavón, Vicente Guerrero called the population to join the arms.

The nationalist idealism that Vicente Guerrero was formed, made him an extremely loyal element to the cause, which is why which, when José María Morelos was shot, Guerrero continued the armed movement, even when they did not give a good omen to this.

Vicente Guerrero He faced great battles, which made Morelos give him the rank of Captain and after Morelos's death, Guerrero continued the fight and remained faithful to the philosophy of Jose Maria Morelos, and already with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

He was entrusted to face and resist throughout the southern coastal area, conquering places such as:

• hidden port
• Santa Cruz de Huatulco
• And formed part of the taking of Acapulco and
• Protected the security of the members of the Congress of Tlacotepec.

Already in the year 1820, conflicts arose in Spain and at the same time the Viceroy Apodaca commissioned the then colonel Agustín de Iturbide to end the rebellion.

It is said that Vicente Guerrero convinced Agustín de Iturbide, who changed sides, forming in 1821 what is known as match plan, with which independence was proclaimed and a Mexican government was projected.

He entered Mexico City with Agustín de Iturbide, who proclaimed independence, but Vicente Guerrero refused to allow Iturbide to be crowned. as emperor what made him support Antonio López de Santa Anna, join the Yorquina Masonic lodge and rise up in arms to overthrow Iturbide.

In 1823 the Iturbide empire fell and Guadalupe Victoria was elected as the first president of Mexico (1824-1829), including Guerrero as a member of his cabinet.

After long conflicts between the Masonic lodges Yorquina (liberal) and Scottish (conservative). He won the Scottish lodge candidate Manuel Gómez Pedraza, losing Vicente Guerrero, but the disagreements for the election and an uprising called "the agreed”Made between Santa Anna and Vicente Guerrero, ended with the proclamation of Vicente Guerrero as President and dismissing Pedraza.

As president, Vicente Guerrero stood out for abolishing slavery, an aspect that has been maintained in our constitution.

Later Santa Anna managed to defeat the army commanded by Spain to recover the lost territories (now Mexico) increasing his fame and getting Congress to remove Vicente Guerrero as president, staying Anastasio Bustand, Who lasted from 1830 to 1832.

Vicente Guerrero took up arms and began to have victories and it was through a conspiracy that Anastasio Bustamante and the Minister of War José Antonio Facio, who hired the Genoese Francisco Picaluga, to convince Guerrero to get on the Colombo, a brig in which he was arrested and later transferred to Oaxaca where he was subjected to a summary trial and sentenced to be shot, being executed on February 14, 1831.

His heroism and recognition were given long before his death, and there are also many who consider him as the second president of Mexico, actually being the third president, having succeeded in having Anastasio overthrown Bustamante.