MEXICAN REVOLUTION

The succession crisis which accompanied the ending of the long dictatorship (1876-1911) of Porfirio Diaz, age 80 in 1910, precipitated a political vacuum and a prolonged struggle for power, privilege and wealth among the groups and individual leaders which and who vied for supremacy in the eight years after he went into exile. His regime in the Latin American tradition of military strongmen and personalismo was erected on a foundation of patronage and favoritism as Diaz sought to maintain power which did not extend far beyond his clique of cronies. The masses, as well as the educated and professional classes and rising new economic and industrial elite, were alienated by the dictatorial excesses of the regime. The economy under his rule had largely become a captive of foreign capitalist interests and the large landowners with most Mexicans living in conditions of extreme poverty. The failure of Diaz' military leaders to suppress Francisco Madero's bid for power opened up the pot

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