Juan N. Méndez
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Juan Nepomuceno Laureano Méndez Sánchez was a Mexican general, a Liberal politician and confidant of Porfirio Díaz, and interim president of the Republic for a few months during the Porfiriato. He ser
Porfiriato
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The Porfiriato or Porfirismo, coined by Mexican historian Daniel Cosío Villegas, is a term given to the period when General Porfirio Díaz ruled Mexico under an authoritarian military dictatorship in t
President Gen. Porfirio Díaz
Rural on board a train. Photograph Manuel Ramos, published in La Revista de Revistas, May 1912
Mexican National Railroad 1891
Henequen bag from the 19th century, one of main contemporary industrialized products produced by Mexico. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.