This is the Benito Juarez Monument in Mexico
    City's Alameda Park.  Juarez became Mexico's
    first president after the French were driven out.

    He is viewed as the "Abraham Lincoln" of
    Mexico because he freed the "campesinos"
    from serfdom to the "hacendados."

    The campesinos were the farm workers who
    couldn't own their own land and were virtual
    slaves to the hacendados (rich landowners).