Como siempre, todos los 5 de Mayo subo alguna imagen relacionada a la historia de Mexico. Esta vez un personaje que en la historia es a veces retratado como un villano y a veces como un heroe: Porfirio Diaz. Imagen hecha para la edicion MYL: Insurgentes.Un saludo a todos los hermanos Mexicanos desde Chile-------------------------------------Hi there guys! This is an image done 7 years ago or so. Every May 5th, I upload an image about mexican history. I hope you like it. This guy is Porfirio Diaz...who is he? well, its time for...LETS WIKIATTACK!José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican soldier and politician, who served seven terms as President of Mexico, totaling three and a half 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 working population of Mexico. This directly precipitated the Mexican Revolution, in which Díaz 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.--------------------------You can share my stuff! Thanks---------------------------DEVIANTART:-FACEBOOK:-TUMBLR-TWITTER-LIVESTREAM-PIXIV