The Belisario Domínguez Medal (Medalla Belisario Domínguez del Senado de la República in Spanish) is the highest decoration that the Mexican Senate gives to eminent citizens.
The name honors Belisario Domínguez, a Chiapas Senator who opposed the Dictatorship of Victoriano Huerta – a position that cost him his life. He was murdered on October 7th, 1913.
Every year, on Octobre 7th, the Senate and the President of Mexico awards the Belisario Domínguez Medal. Since its inception, the decoration has been given 69 times – eight of them posthumously.
The award includes the medal and a diploma.
The medal is struck in bronze. The obverse bears the inscriptions “Belisario Domínguez” on the top and “Ennobleció la Patria” (“Made the country more noble“) at the bottom. On the sides of the Belisario Domínguez portrait are the words “Octubre 7” (October 7) and “de 1953” (of 1953).
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