Benito Juarez

Sometimes the craptacular quality of one's camera provides a really interesting picture. This picture of the statue of Benito Juarez in Pantoja Park here in San Diego, was taken with the camera on my mobile and is largely unaltered. I only wish I had gotten a little bit more sky above his head. Wikipedia's article on Juarez mentions several other statues including on Basin street where he lived when he was working making cigars while he was in exile from Mexico.

Because the park is the remainder of an old Catholic seminary, I always that that the statue was of a priest or a monk. But, in reality Benito Juarez is the Mexican President who defeated the French, other European powers and Mexican conservatives in the conflicts which included the victory over the French at Puebla which is celebrated, mostly in the United States, as Cinco de Mayo.


Another interesting fact, according to Wikipedia is that Benito Mussolini was named after Benito Juarez.

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