Diaz also claimed to one of the most controversial statesmen among Mexico’s previous twenty-eight presidents that took control over the Mexican government. Above all Diaz is generally commemorated as being one of the country's most notorious dictators. There is, however, bitter irony when talking about the lies that lay within his accomplishments where the benefits were said to be felt by the very few of well off. This of course does not dismiss the obvious truth that he did in fact bring Mexico into the modern age that allowed the country to achieve financial solvency under his regime. Diaz ruled with an iron fist and during this time is referred to as the Porfirio that is again marked by great advancement and modernization with the Mexican economy booming. His major achievements included the introduction of the ‘paz porfiriana’ the internal stability within Mexico, attracting foreign investments, proving the economic growth by enacting reforms and modernization, and executing an effective centralized …show more content…
Mexico before Diaz was the post-independence period consisting of infighting among the centralists and regionalist, soon after between the liberal and the conservatives. The country was in constant state of what seemed to be political anarchy. The constant infighting creating civil conflict naturally weakened the nation essentially allow the United States to encroach in 1846 resulting in more than half of Mexico’s national land to be lost to them. Not long after the liberal reform came to rise, led by Benito Juarez, was there some stability among the nation. Not long after the liberal enacted radical social reforms creating unrest allowing the intervention by the French under Napoleon III in 1863, placing a surprisingly liberal Emperor from the Habsburg line, Maximillian, who was overthrown and executed by Juarez another example of the instability within the Mexican political system. Fear and uncertainty were common feelings throughout the country during this period, this in turn led to the Spanish, French, and the United States viewing Mexico as a