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Bicentenary of his execution and 250th anniversary of his birth

Inauguration of the exhibition José María Morelos y Pavón. Generalissimo of Mexican America armies

December 15, 2015

As an approach that will provide answers to the public to meet Morelos in his most human image away from conventionalism was defined the exhibition, Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon. Generalissimo of Mexican America armies, inaugurated by President Enrique Peña Nieto in the National History Museum at Chapultepec Castle.

 The president, accompanied by Aurelio Nuño, Secretary of Public Education, and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA, for its contraction in Spanish), toured the exhibition consisting of 250 pieces that deals with Morelos’s childhood, life in the eighteenth century and campaigns as head of South Insurgent Army until his execution on December 22, 1815.

 Tovar y de Teresa spoke of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon as one of the most important figures in our history by being the first to imagine a national project in his statesman investiture of the Independence and freedom of Mexico.

 The head of Conaculta declared that this great exhibition is about Morelos, the human being with that part of life hero who gave name to a city and a state, in addition to being the image of our currency, who has been glorified by the great painters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An exhibit, he said, thought in young people to rediscover in him the figure of the man who imagined and created a Mexico as a free and sovereign country.

 "Morelos is all that, history, law, ideas of state, republic, freedom; he is the hero that was marked by his circumstances. By his close contact with rural life, he knew all agricultural activities and workers, most indigenous, mestizos and mulattos. He was sensitive as a statesman and human to understand the need for major changes", he said.

 During the inaugural tour under the guidance of Salvador Rueda Smithers, director of the National History Museum in Chapultepec Castle, the public knew pieces of great relevance, as the iconic portrait El Mixtequito, for which Morelos posed in life.

 Also, historical objects such as Morelos's sable and dress coat, letters and documents such as the Constitution of Apatzingan and Sentimientos de la Nación (Feelings of the Nation) 1813 text as well as the Roman Breviary which belonged to the Servant of the Nation were praised.

 Finally, the president of Conaculta stated that 200 years after his death and 250 of his birth, Morelos with his immense love for the nation and his political and libertarian legacy, remains the support of Mexicans. "This exhibition offers a journey through the life of a man who gave his life to build a free and united Mexico".

 Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon. Generalissimo of Mexican America armies will be on display until April 3, 2016 at the National History Museum, Chapultepec Castle.

 

Mexico,Distrito Federal