Porfirio Díaz President

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (Spanish pronunciation: [porˈfiɾjo ˈðias]; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican soldier and politician, who served seven terms as President of Mexico, totaling nearly three decades between 1876 and 1911. A veteran of the Reform War and the French intervention in Mexico, Díaz rose to the rank of General, leading republican troops against the French-imposed Emperor Maximilian. Seizing power in a coup in 1876, Díaz and his allies ruled Mexico for the next thirty-five years, a period known as the Porfiriato.Díaz is a controversial figure in Mexican history, with the status of villain among the revolutionaries who overthrew him, and something of a hero in the business community. The Porfiriato was marked by significant internal stability (known as the "paz porfiriana"), modernization, and economic growth. There was heavy investment in mining and railways from American and British business. However, Díaz's regime grew unpopular due to repression and political stagnation. Furthermore his economic policies helped a few wealthy landowning hacendados to acquire huge areas of land that left rural farming campesinos unable to make a living, thus resulting in few jobs and depressingly low wages for the growing mexican working-population. This directly precipitated the Mexican Revolution, in which Diaz fell from power after he imprisoned his electoral rival and declared himself the winner of an eighth term in office. Díaz fled to France, where he died in exile four years later.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Díaz Porfirio (Spanish)
Birth date	September 15, 1830
Birth place	Oaxaca , Oaxaca Oaxaca
Nationality	Mexico
Date of death	July 02, 1915
Place of death	Paris , French Third Republic
Spouse	Delfina Ortega Díaz Carmen Romero Rubio