Imperialism In Mexico

1910 marked the first centennial since the initial phase of Mexico’s independence from Spain had begun. In the years that followed, Mexico proposed to reconstruct its government departing from unwavering monarchical rule determined to withhold civil liberties, which prevented economic prosperity from the middle class, while suppressing the lower class. At the same time, the monarchy was unwilling to return lands belonging to the indigenous communities of Mexico. From the Spanish remnants of political regime, a government influenced and founded on religious principles, surfaced, but it too proved to be ineffective. A federalist government that followed, was not better, became corrupt, serving the interest of those who held military and political
The Porfiriato, known for the 35-year period, Diaz had political control as president of Mexico, ushered in economic prosperity by opening foreign relations, thereby reconciling the national debt with foreign lenders. It introduced improvements in public sanitation, and technological advances that provided Mexico on equal footing with other leading industrial nations. Unfortunately, this provided the middle class with little to no resolution, as their demands evade a disenfranchised society, continued to be unrepresented offering no resolutions to appease the social troubles that existed during that period. It is said that “Diaz was the symbol of all Mexico’s ills, and they were convinced that almost any change was a change would be a change for the better”. This would bring forth an upheaval of all people from the poor to the middle-class citizens of
However, these among other laws never fully materialized, especially when Porfirio Diaz came into political power 30 years later and circumvented the doctrines of that constitution. Power and control had never been unsurpassed, nor was it as deviant and draining to Mexico than any other predecessors to the presidency as it was during Diaz rule as dictatorship. 1910 marks the beginning of The Mexican Revolution, which was a movement intended by the middle-class to overthrow Diaz corrupt and defunct regime and mend all the wrongs that had continued to plague Mexico, but to also put back power that gave people rights and liberties they should have. Ultimately, liberals and intellectual groups who began this movement initially sought to challenge and reform certain constitutional laws among them dealt with labor rights, education and how Porfirio Diaz provoked this