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.
Manuel Romero Rubio
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Manuel Romero Rubio was a Mexican politician and lawyer who participated in the governments of Benito Juárez, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and Porfirio Díaz.
