Mexico had a long way to be stabilized from Diaz’s administration to the constitution of the 1917. The Porfiriato era was able to stabilize Mexico had problems despite of the growing economy led a major uprising. After factions argued what’s best for Mexico led a list of compromise constitution that is the constitution of 1917 which they have debated each other.
Porfirio Diaz led a coup against President Manuel Gonzalez whom was to pick up and leave in 1876. The Diaz system allows him using the army and police powers to controlled elections, press and public speech, and popular government a farce . He managed to stay in power as he modernize Mexico was practical to it until 1910.
Industrialization came to a high price when there had been company stores overcharge and deceived easily their customers . President Diaz bought order throughout Mexico with a secret police force and arrest newspaper published while with censorship. It had push to modernization and industrialization helped by ideology of science and technocracy which it did have created byproducts of the revolution .
There had been diet varied in different social classes shown families are struggling to make money to support them . The economy was working well in the first stage until the second stage failed which the wages fell and failed to rebalance the economy . The background of the opposition against Diaz’s administration had two treads are Anarcho-Syndicalism and Socialists.
The Anarcho-Syndicalism protests against the factories and favored an agrarian society while Communists and the Socialists favored modern industry and modern state. This led labor movement lasted a while until Diaz sent his rurales police to break up the protests. Life was harsh for middle ...
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Porfiriato era was able to stabilize Mexico had problems despite of the growing economy led a major uprising as the result of the political repression. Constitution of 1917 is a list of compromise constitution was good in paper, but lacks the realism that would actually work. In a sense, Mexicans did expect for equality and economic progress that would come in the later years.
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Diaz adopted high tariffs and restrictive labor policies that favored the interests of hancendados, the large landowners who kept people work on the land in debt. (10)
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