Amacuzac is a small town in the State of Morelos in Mexico that has an interesting history. There’s evidence of a human settlement as early as 900BCE, and became under the administration of the Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca, a peerage created for the Conquistador, whose son built an hacienda that later became the headquarters of General Agustín de Iturbide, later the first Emperor of Mexico during the War of Independence, and where he met General Vincente Guerrero, later Mexico’s first black president, before agreeing to the finalized plan of independence. Martin Cortés also ceded land for the Franciscans to build a church along the way to Acapulco, and the church took 300 years to build.
In the 1800s, the town was almost wiped out due to cholera, and was later where a conference to establish the border between Morelos and Guerrero was held.
In more recent times, in 2018, the candidate of the Labour Party who was mayor in the past won the municipal presidency but was not able to hold office due to his arrest for his ties to a gang headed by his nephew. His other nephew was arrested in the same year for homicide. His son, the second-in-command in the city at the time, was also later arrested for attempting to assassinate a former mayor.
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