Jacinto Canek

Mural of Canek's execution by Fernando Castro Pacheco in the Yucatan Governor's Palace

Jacinto Canek or Jacinto Uc de los Santos (c. 1731 in barrio de San Román, City of Campeche, New Spain – December 14, 1761 in Mérida, New Spain), was an 18th-century Maya Mexican revolutionary who fought against the Spanish in the Yucatán Peninsula of New Spain.[1]

  1. ^ Knight, Alan (2002) Mexico: the colonial era Cambridge University Press, 2002