Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
Carlos Canseco González is awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal by President Vicente Fox.

The Order of the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (Spanish: Medalla de Honor "Belisario Domínguez" del Senado de la República) is the highest award bestowed by the Mexican government. The award has been given every year since 1954 by the Senate of Mexico to eminent Mexicans with a distinguished lifetime career who contributed most "toward the welfare of the Nation and mankind".

Only Mexican entities representing "the cultural spirit of the time" are allowed to submit nominations for this award. This provision typically allows universities, newspapers, learned societies, non-governmental organizations and government entities to nominate candidates.

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Background

The award is named after politician Belisario Domínguez (1863-1913). Domínguez was a Senator for the state of Chiapas at the time of the Mexican Revolution. After Victoriano Huerta's coup d'état, which ousted President Francisco I. Madero, Domínguez circulated a speech as a letter to fellow members of congress in which he denounced Huerta's actions and encouraged Congress to depose him. At the end of his letter he also encouraged readers to make copies of it and distribute them around the country. The speech was not taken well in Huerta's circles and Domínguez was assassinated a few days later, on October 7, 1913.

In 1953 President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines signed the decree establishing the award in remembrance of this "martyr of democracy". That same year the Senate decided to bestow the first medal on the bust of Belisario Domínguez that already existed in the Senate Chamber as a symbolic act. It is for this reason that the medal was awarded twice in 1954.

Description

The Order consists of a single class and is awarded to a single recipient during a solemn ceremony in the Senate Chamber on October 7. A gold medal hanging from a silk ribbon with the colors of the Mexican flag is given together with a diploma signed by the President of the Republic and the leader of the Senate.

The medal has the national coat of arms on one side together with the inscription "Estados Unidos Mexicanos, H. Cámara de Senadores 1952-1958" ("United Mexican States, Honourable Chamber of Senators 1952-1958"). The reverse side of the medal has an image of Domínguez' bust together with the inscription "Ennobleció a la Patria, 7 de octubre de 1913" ("Ennobled the Nation, October 7, 1913").

Recipients

The following is a complete list of people who have been recipients of the Belisario Domínguez Medal. Note that 1954 was the only year the medal has been awarded twice.

  • 1954Rosaura Zapata
  • 1954Erasmo Castellanos Quinto
  • 1955Esteban Baca Calderón
  • 1956Gerardo Murillo, "Dr. Atl"
  • 1957Roque Estrada Reynoso
  • 1958Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama
  • 1959Heriberto Jara Corona
  • 1960Isidro Fabela
  • 1961José Inocente Lugo
  • 1962Aurelio Manrique Jr.
  • 1963María Hernández Zarco
  • 1964Adrián Aguirre Benavides
  • 1965Plácido Cruz Ríos
  • 1966Ramón F. Iturbe
  • 1967Francisco L. Urquizo
  • 1968Miguel Angel Cevallos
  • 1969María Cámara Vales, Vda. de Pino Suárez
  • 1970Rosendo Salazar
  • 1971Jaime Torres Bodet
  • 1972Ignacio Ramos Praslow
  • 1973Pablo E. Macías Valenzuela
  • 1974Rafael de la Colina Riquelme
  • 1975Ignacio Chávez Sánchez
  • 1976Jesús Romero Flores
  • 1977Juan de Dios Bátiz Peredes
  • 1978Gustavo Baz Prada
  • 1979Fidel Velázquez Sánchez
  • 1980Luis Padilla Nervo
  • 1981Luis Alvarez Barret
  • 1982Gen. Raúl Madero González
  • 1983Jesús Silva Herzog
  • 1984Salomón González Blanco
  • 1985María Lavalle Urbina
  • 1986Salvador Zubirán
  • 1987Eduardo García Maynez
  • 1988Rufino Tamayo
  • 1989Raúl Castellano Jiménez
  • 1990Andrés Serra Rojas
  • 1991Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán
  • 1992Ramón G. Bonfil
  • 1993Andrés Henestrosa Morales
  • 1994Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez
  • 1995Miguel León Portilla
  • 1996Griselda Alvarez Ponce de León
  • 1997Heberto Castillo Martínez
  • 1998José Angel Conchello Dávila
  • 1999Carlos Fuentes
  • 2000Leopoldo Zea Aguilar
  • 2001José Ezequiel Iturriaga Sauco
  • 2002Héctor Fix Zamudio
  • 2003Luis González y González
  • 2004Carlos Canseco González
  • 2005Gilberto Borja Navarrete
  • 2006Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
  • 2007Carlos Castillo Peraza (post mortem)
  • 2008Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
  • 2009Antonio Ortiz Mena (post mortem)

See also

  • Condecoración Miguel Hidalgo
  • Mexican Honours System

References


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