User blog:ANIMALGAMINGXzero/Mexican revolution prelude

In order to understand the Mexican revolution you need to know why it happened so in 1861 France invaded mexico and attempted to install a habsburg monarchy along with Spain and the United kingdom with confederate states of America supporting the invasion. But in 1867 the remaining pro monarchy forces were destroyed and Benito Juarez ( pronounced warez) was seen as a hero but died in 1872. After his death a man named Porfirto Diaz came to power who fought in the battle of the puebla(Cinco De Mayo). He stepped down in 1880 after 3 years but in 1884 he returned and soon became an authoritarian dictator he cared more about profit than the people giving most the land away to wealthy Americans leading to famine and and hundreds of thousands starving over 600,000 between 1900-1910. In 1910 he promised elections to restart where he expected to win but obviously was not and a wealthy liberal named Francisco Madero was really popular. But Upon entering the election he was arrested for threatening Diaz power. Diaz declared himself the elections winner but Madero escaped from prison to the United States where he came up with the plan of San Luis de Potosì published on October 5th it called for an armed revolution to start on November 20th 1910 and the people wanting democracy rose up and started the Mexican revolution.