Juarista

English

Etymology

From Spanish juarista, from Juárez (“a surname”) + -ista, after Mexican resistance leader and five times president Benito Pablo Juárez García (1806–1872), known as Benito Juárez.

Noun

Juarista (plural Juaristas)

1. (historical) A follower of Benito Juárez during the period of resistance to the French occupation.
   • 1992, Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America, published 1998, page 436:

     The forces of Maximilian, represented by the aristocratic Marquis (Cesar Romero), can pay well and in gold; the Juaristas led by General Ramirez can offer little pay and appeal to the love of freedom and independence which Americans are supposed to share.

   • 2000, John Truett, Curse of the Emperor's Gold‎^[1], page 107:

     "I'll have to leave you here for a while," he told Agnes. “The emperor and his allies have decided to protect Querétaro from being taken by the Juaristas."

   • 2008, David R. Stevens, editor, Sin Perdón: Acquiescence with Murder‎^[2], volume 1, page 255:

     To weed out Juarista sympathizers, French forces traveled the two hundred miles to San Luis Potosi and captured that city on 22 December 1863.

   • 2012 September, Patrick J. Kelly, The North American Crisis of the 1860s, William A. Blair (editor), The Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 2, Issue 3, page 350,

     At Puebla, Mexico, a forty-five-hundred-man Juarista army under the command of thirty-three-year old^[sic] Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza trounced a force of six thousand French troops moving inland toward Mexico City.

   • 2014, Tony Williams, Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, Revised edition, page 72:

     Jaroo kills Santana when he discovers the gold. Chavez and his men decide to join the Juaristas, while the Apaches leave the fort after finding Santana's body.