José Yves Limantour Marquet was a Mexican financier and politician who served as Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911. One of the most promin
José Yves Limantour in 1910
Limantour's father Joseph Yves Limantour
Limantour with President Porfirio Díaz and Los Científicos
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican army general and politician who was the president of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911. Seizing power in a
José Yves Limantour
…December 1854 – 26 August 1935) was a Mexican financier and politician who served as Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911. One of the most prominent politicians of the Porfiriato era, he was a key member of Díaz's technocratic advisors known as Los Científicos…
María Petrona Cecilia Mori Cortés, mother of Porfirio Díaz, photo c. 1854 in Oaxaca
A young Porfirio Díaz, at the time of the Intervention
Díaz's victory in the Battle of Miahuatlán opened the way for his recapture of Oaxaca City