The Benito Pablo Juarez Journal

            What's a hero? A hero is define as "one that is much admired or shows great
            
             courage" by the Merriam Webster's Notebook Dictionary. A hero can also be define
            
             as what Benito Pablo Juarez is to Mexico. Benito was born in a small village in
            
             Oaxaca called San Pablo Guelatao on March 21, 1806 in a two roomed cottage with
            
             floors of dirt. Benito was born to Marcelino Juarez and Grigida Garcia two catholic
            
             Zapotec indians. Benito had two older sisters one named Maria and the other one
            
             named Rosa.
            
             Benito's parent's died only a couple of months apart from each other, three
            
             years after Benito's birth. When Benito's parent's died he and his sister's went to live
            
             with there grandparent's, Pedro Juarez and Justa Lopez. At the age eleven Benito's
            
             grandparent's died his sisters were older and had already gotten married. After that
            
             happend Benito had to move with his uncle Matias Juarez.
            
             Benito like many Zapotec indiants didn't speak spanish, he only spoke his native
            
             language. Matias tought Benito every thing he knew about the spanish language, but
            
             Benito wanted to learn more about it and about the world. The only way that Benito
            
             was going to be able to know more about the world and how to speak spanish was
            
             by going to the city of Oaxaca. Or by going to the Catholic Fathers, but Benito did not
            
             want to become a priest. One day when Benito was taking care of the sheep, he found
            
             out that there were some men that had come from the city of Oaxaca to buy some
            
             mules. As the men were walking down the road to get to the city of Oaxaca. Benito
            
             saw them, and decided to ask them to tell him a story about the city of Oaxaca. Wile
            
             the men were entertaining Benito with there stories about the city Oaxaca one of the
            
             men stole one of his sheep. A few minutes after the men left to the city of Oaxaca,
            
             Benito counted his sheep again. To see that one of them was missing, Benito does not
            
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