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Vicente Guerrero
A painting of Vicente Guerrero at the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology and History.
2nd President of Mexico
In office April 1, 1829 – December 17, 1829
Vice President(s)	Anastasio Bustamante
Preceded by	Guadalupe Victoria
Succeeded by	José María Bocanegra
Born	August 10, 1782(1782-08-10) Tixtla (modern-day Guerrero)
Died	February 14, 1831 (aged 48) Cuilapam, Oaxaca

Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831) was an Afro-Mexican revolutionary leader and president. He was one of the main rebel leaders of the War of Independence who fought against Spain for independence in the early 19th century; and an early President of Mexico. Guerrero was born in the town of Tixtla, some 100 km inland from the port of Acapulco, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. He belonged to a poor rural family of mixed Indian and African decent. He was the grandfather of the Mexican politician and intellectual Vicente Riva Palacio.

Guerrero joined in the early revolt against Spain in 1810, first fighting alongside José María Morelos and later with Isidoro Montes de Oca (a Mexican General of Filipino origin) then taking command over those troops after Morelos's death.

Once Mexico achieved independence, he at first collaborated with Agustín de Iturbide (he even accepted his Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe and the rank of General in his Imperial Army). After Iturbide was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico by the Congress, Guerrero later turned against him and came out in favor of a Republic with the Plan of Casa Mata.

When the conservative Manuel Gómez Pedraza won the election to succeed Guadalupe Victoria as president, Guerrero, with the aid of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, staged a coup and took the presidency on April 1, 1829. (The violent nature of the coup displeased some Latin American liberals of the time who otherwise sympathised with Guerrero's goals, and his actions were condemned by Simón Bolívar.) The most notable achievement of Guerrero's short term as president was ordering an immediate abolition of slavery and emancipation of all slaves.

Guerrero was deposed in a rebellion under Vice-President Anastasio Bustamante that began on December 4, 1829. He left the capital to fight the rebels, but was deposed by the Mexico City garrison in his absence on 17 December 1829. He hoped to come back to power, but conservative General Bustamante captured him through bribery and had him executed.

The state of Guerrero is named after him, and his birthplace was renamed Tixtla de Guerrero in his honor.

• History of Mexico
• List of Presidents of Mexico

• Vicente Guerrero: An Inventory of His Collection at the Benson Latin American Collection
• (Spanish) Alfredo Ávila: Vicente Guerrero, un presidente republicano
• Vicente Guerrero on Mexconnect.com
• Guerrero on gob.mex/kids
• Guerrero on Creole Culture site
• [1] Letters about Vicente Guerrero hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

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