Juarez was a good leader, a national hero and the only full blood Indian to become a Mexican president. He made a large blunder when he had Maximillian executed and tarnished his international reputation. Mexico could have gotten some good currency by showing mercy and sending him home in humiliation.

Cortina, on the other hand, was an outlaw thug and I am very surprised to learn he had a friendship with Santos Benavides or any other Texas gentlemen.