Firstly, I need to say that people from Mexico used to think that Porfirio Diaz wasn’t a good person, he did know how to build a country talking about economy but he never treated Mexican people as true citizens. In those times, the economy was very stable because of the new agricultural wealth, industry and mines but at one point people were affected by repressions, poverty, unemployment, lack of liberty, among many others.

I also think that oligarchy in this lecture is one of the most important concepts to identify the regime of Porfirio Diaz because at that time just a few people, specifically the wealth and the powerful used to control the economy, politics, business and every type of privilege. In addition to, from my philosophy class I know that Milton Friedman’s idea match perfectly with Porfirio Diaz because this economist used to mention that Latin American countries just care about making profit and that you don’t have to care about the people who is suffering from this kind of autocratic or oligarchy regimes, like the “Porfiriato”.

Moreover, one of the most impressive achievements with Porfirio Diaz and his dictatorship was the creation of so many railroads which helped to increase the economy in different ways, I think thats one of many things that Mexicans know about this leader and hero. For example, foreign investors were a very important part of the economy for Mexico, thanks to them is that railroads, telegraphs and weapons started to gain power in the market.

It is true that this kind of oligarchy criticise democracy because they used to say that people were not ready to exercise their rights and even more important to have a proper order, but in my opinion it is definitely obvious that the government wanted to control everything, thats why the bureaucracy did not want people to get involve in these matters. Additionally, the rich people do not care about poor people they just wanted a real modernisation for Mexico, no matter if people were suffering.

Another important thing was the photography, I need to mention that this sign was used for many different things like showing traditional dresses, gender norms, racial types, slaves, among many others. But everything was related to modernisation. I just can infer that Latin American countries wanted to show their independence, innovation, imagination, etc. to other countries.

From the document “Porfirio Diaz, hero of the americas” published by James Creelman, I have to say that it was impressive the way that this interviewer described Porfirio Diaz because it makes me feel that americans and other people saw this dictatorship as true hero and good image for Mexico, and of course he was that for the economy in general but not for the poor people. Ultimately, I have to mention that when people start to have too much power they get crazy and sometimes they lose a true sense of reality and the perfect example is with Porfirio Diaz when he used to thought that he was useful to many citizens from Mexico and that was his main reason for not leaving the presidency, he though that Mexicans were not self sufficient by their own.