what role did Porfirio Diaz play in the Mexican Revolution?

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Biography of Porfirio Diaz
Diaz, Porfirio. President of Mexico. Born at Oaxaca, September 15, 1830. Took part in resistance to French invasion, 1863. Commander of the army of the east, 1867; headed an insurrection against the government in 1875. President, 1877-80; after a lapse of one term, re-elected 1884, holding office continuously to 1911. Died 1915.
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Díaz, Porfirio (pôrfē'ryō dē'äs) [key], 1830–1915, Mexican statesman, a mestizo, christened José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz. He gained prominence by supporting Benito Juárez and the liberals in the War of the Reform and in the war against Emperor Maximilian and the French (1861—67). Defeated by Juárez in the presidential election of 1871, Díaz charged fraud and led a revolt against the government, which was not suppressed until after the inauguration of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. Díaz again lost in the presidential race of 1876. He refused defeat, rose against Lerdo, and gained the presidency. Aside from a brief interregnum from 1880 to 1884 when he handpicked Manuel González as his temporary successor, he remained in power until 1911. His rule was ruthless and ultimately effective. Conspirators were crushed, and banditry was officially eliminated by incorporating marauders into a state police called the rurales. He shrewdly matched interest groups against each other, leaving the president supreme; elections were a mockery. Yet he also sought conciliation with previously hostile sectors, particularly the Catholic Church and the U.S. government. Díaz's policy encouraging foreign investment defused U.S. interventionism and led to U.S. recognition of his regime. Material prosperity under Díaz grew. Roads, railroads, and telegraph lines greatly increased. Díaz was influenced by positivism, the belief in the triumph of science and the scientific method. Positivists such as Jose Ives Limantour (1854–1935), the leader of the Científicos, reformed the fiscal system and gave Mexico financial stability. Mexico became a land of peace and prosperity, ruled in the interest of the few. Díaz sold three quarters of the nation's mineral resources to foreign interests and apportioned millions of acres among friendly hacendados. The peasants, far from obtaining social justice, lost more of their communal lands (see ejido); half of the entire rural population was bound to debt slavery. Opposition and discontent grew rapidly in the last decade of Díaz's rule. In 1909, Díaz declared his intention to restore democratic rule, yet his fraudulent reelection the following year demonstrated his promises empty, and sparked a revolution headed by Francisco I. Madero. In 1911, Díaz was forced to flee the country; he died in exile.

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Porfirio Diaz Mexican Revolution

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what role did Porfirio Diaz play in the Mexican Revolution?
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By 1910, Diaz had ruled Mexico for nearly 35 years. He had had himself "re-elected" time and time again. But in an interview with a U.S. journalist in 1908, he stated that perhaps it was time that Mexico have a new regime via open elections. He was lying, of course, but others within his own political circle, took him at him at his word. Prior to the1910 presidential election, he had Francisco Madero, his strongest opponent, jailed. Despite this the election went on ahead and under very questionable circumstances Diaz was once again proclaimed as president.

This lead to widespread anger and revolt. Madero escaped to the north and proclaimed himself as Mexico's president. So two factions were formed and the great revolution of 1910 was set to go.

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was against the revolution fought against zapata and villa

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