Resumen de Un símbolo llamado Juárez
This article proposes to examine the gestation of Benito Juarez as a symbolic figure within the unraid of mexican national heroes. This study sustains that the figure of Benito Juarez during the late porfirian period (1876-1911) was by antonomasia the symbol of the mexican state. Despite the fall of that regime, the symbol endures throught the century as an emblematic national figure within the collective imagery of the mexican political system. This paper studies how the figure of Juarez was constructed as a discourse of resistance by a group of dissident jacobin liberals who wished to pose the construyed figure of Juarez as the antimony of Porfirio Diaz. But the article illustrates how, paradoxially, the figure of Juarez is appropiated by porfirian presidencialism and reesignified until it is transformed into a official symbol of the state.
