Biography of porfirio diaz
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| José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori President of Mexico | |
| Born | September 15, 1830(1830-09-15,) Oaxaca, Oaxaca |
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| Died | July 2, 1915 (aged 84) Paris, France |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Predecessor | Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1876) Juan N. Méndez (1877) Manuel González (1884) |
| Successor | Juan N. Méndez (1876) Manuel González (1880) Francisco León de la Barra (1911) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | * Delfina Ortega * Carmen Romero Rubio |
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1880, and from 1884 to 1911. After a distinguished military career, Díaz parted company from his former colleague, President Benito Juárez, disliking his federal reforms and preferring a strong center and, in 1876, following a successful rebellion, he became President himself. Over the next three decades, despite many revolts against his administration, he centralized authority by undermining the power of regional leaders and by populating the legislature with people loyal to himself. Favoring the Creoles, he totally ignored the rights and needs of indigenous peoples. Due to national debt, he encouraged foreign investment. On the one hand, M
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Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbó, University of Oxford
Speaker: Carlos Tello Díaz, UNAM, Mexico, and LAC
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Carlos Tello Díaz is a writer and a professor at Mexico’s National University (UNAM). He did his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford (Balliol College) and his Ph.D. in History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His main research interest is Mexican political and cultural history from 1850. He has been a fellow at the universities of Cambridge, Harvard and the Sorbonne, and is now an academic visitor at the Latin American Centre. He is the author of several books, among which El exilio, La rebelión de las Cañadas and 2 de julio, and he is currently writing a three-volume biography of general Porfirio Díaz, perhaps the single most important character in the history of Mexico.
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