EVIDENCIA

CRÓNICA GAI1-240202501-AA4-EV01

REALIZADO POR: García Orduz Fredy Alberto

SENA: Apoyo Administrativo en Salud

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 GENERAL PORFIRIO DÍAZ
Everyone knew, in Mexico in the late nineteenth century, who General Porfirio Díaz
was. Many knew him as the "hero of April 2," as he had been in command of
Mexican forces in the capture of Puebla in 1867. Others remembered him because
he competed twice for the presidency of Mexico with Benito Juárez himself, and
when he was defeated for the second time in the elections, he proclaimed the Plan
de la Noria, opposing by arms the re-election of Juárez.
"Porfirio de la Noria," as he was nicknamed then, also failed to seize power in that
uprising, but Juárez's death in 1872 gave him the right ground to lay down his arms
and retire from public life. Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada assumed the interim
presidency and no one would have suspected that this same Porfirio Díaz, later,
would govern the destinies of Mexico for 31 years.
After a while things looked so bad that Díaz had to flee to Cuba, at that time still in
the hands of the Spaniards, and there recruit an army to try again. And this time he
ran with much better luck. Thanks to the combination of his troops and those of
Manuel González, on November 21 Díaz took the Mexican capital, finally becoming
provisional president of the Republic, after the flight into exile of Lerdo de Tejada.
From December 1, 1884 until the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1911, the
political command of Mexico fell uninterruptedly into the hands of Porfirio Díaz. In
fact, the only parenthesis that existed in the 31 years of Porfiriato was that of the 4
years of González's government, in which Díaz, in any case, was always present.
Despite the political and economic stability that the Porfiriato brought with it,
Mexico entered the twentieth century in the midst of a social and economic crisis.
On the one hand, the peasantry and the working class lived in miserable
conditions, totally excluded from the prosperity that their own work made possible.
There were, therefore, the first uprisings against the federal government,
particularly among the workers and peasants. There were numerous strikes and
demands for better labor, in which the Díaz government tried to mediate between
workers and employers.
With more than eighty years, suffering from deafness and physical exhaustion,
Porfirio Díaz began to draft his resignation, which he presented to the Chamber of
Deputies at eleven o'clock in the morning of May 25, in the middle of a
demonstration of more than a thousand people demanding his resignation in
Mexico City.
Francisco León de la Barra, his hitherto foreign minister, took his place at the helm
of the executive branch, while Díaz and his family went into exile to Paris, France.
Suddenly, the solid Porfiriato had collapsed, and Mexico was preparing for a long
and bloody civil war: the Mexican Revolution.