Porfirio Diaz

Scholars of the Porfiriato emphasize modernity, public works (railroads, telegraphs, buildings), the pacification of the country, peace and order.Reality surpasses myth and it is a matter of discovering what was at the bottom of the concessions, permits and licenses that were granted to private individuals, even to foreigners, and in this way a legislation was carried out in which oil, mines, railroads were almost given away to favor American companies, forests, wastelands, favoring himself and his close ones.