Porrfirio Diaz Ascension To Power Analysis

Porfirio Diaz’ ascension to power:
Porfirio Diaz was one of the large lists of rulers Mexico had, and was the one who established the porfiriato when got the presidency. Having born in 1830 in Oaxaca, Mexico, since being a child, he seemed to have a propitious career. However, with the beginning of the Mexico-American war in 1846, the young Porfirio got his head filled with a severe patriotism that led him join the army for military service. After a few events, he met a liberalist politician called Benito Juarez and started a friendship with him, and joined to his liberal party. In 1853, Santa Anna, who was conservative and Benito’s enemy, took the dictatorship and in 1854, General Juan Alvarez went against him causing his overthrow in 1855.
Diaz wanted to obtain absolute power, in other words, no opposition. His main plan was to make people want to support him by offering deals to peasants and to medium-class people. In this way, he will be getting people on his side. He realized if he could control the correct people, the opposition will reduce. For him, people support him or not; bribe was the first option considered by Diaz if any general or politician wanted to confront him; otherwise murder was the next option. Diaz wanted the power even though if that mean to use the force, showing his nature.
The desire of Diaz to keep the presidency was raising, thus that he took advantage of an amendment made in 1887 which permitted reelections. Therefore, he reelected himself until 1910, with an interruption in 1880, when Manuel Gonzales, Diaz’ delegate, won the elections according to the non-reelections policy, but Porfirio Diaz recovered his charge by 1884 because of the instability Manuel caused. This was against he was fighting for before he became president. Eventually, the phrase used in the Diaz’ rebellion “Effective suffrage, no reelections” was losing weight because of the continuous reelections until
New governors, political bosses and mayors were stablished in the hierarchy, with Porfirio in the top of power. Overall, he surrounded of people with his same conviction. In addition, he seemed to have preference to people of his same state from Oaxaca. It is true that during the Porfiriato Mexico suffered from serious changes, some of them benefiting Mexico, and others harming it. This makes the Porfiriato kind of controversial for some historians. To improve the economy of Mexico, Diaz established a policy to foreigners, attracting them to invest on the country improving the economy and the situation. However, this only benefited some parts of the country, whereas the rest did not be affected, and the growth of Mexico’s economy was made by external factors instead internal improvement. The level of violence in Mexico was too high, therefore, Porfirio dictated the “Ley Fuga” (Leak Law) which permitted to open fire against any criminal, bringing as a consequence the decrease of the violence level in Mexico during the Porfiriato and leaving over 10000 people dead. Porfirio could not be in charge of executing that law all the time, that is the reason he created the Rurales, a police force which objective was to stop insurrection. Little by little people were getting sick of the government of Porfirio, even though some people were in favor of him. Despite