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Mexico Pays Homage to Nation’s Great Liberator

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Monday, March 21, is an official holiday in Mexico in observation of the 1806 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime that served as the backdrop for modernization and urbanization. Juárez,

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