Justo Sierra
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Justo Sierra Méndez was a Mexican prominent liberal writer, historian, journalist, poet and political figure during the Porfiriato, in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth cen
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Sierra married Luz Mayora in 1874.
Birthplace in San Francisco de Campeche
Monument erected in memory of Justo Sierra in Campeche
Porfirio Díaz
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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
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…century and early twentieth century. He was a leading voice of the Científicos, "the scientists" who were the intellectual leaders during the regime of Porfirio Díaz. Sierra's portrait appeared on the 2000 Mexican pesos banknote issued between 1985 and 1989. He was the son of Mexican novelist Justo Sierra O'Reilly…
Díaz in 1910
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