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Porfirio Díaz was a war hero. He was a distinguished general during the French Invasion. He consolidated political stability by the end of the 1800s. He was a positivist and a progressive thinker, formed in an important freemason lodge; that's why he engaged positivists to design government policies.
He did attract a big amount of foreign investments and he was responsible for the economic growth of the country. But he also became a ruthless corrupt dictator who also benefited himself from selectively fighting crime. If an important manager from a foreign firm was kidnapped by a gang, he would negotiate the rescue, so the bandits would be executed, the manager would testify how great his government was and he would keep a part of the money. He prosecuted people who were not criminals, but exhibited them as such. He would send his military friends to regions that "needed to be pacified" to make temporary heroes to make the news and to drawn rebellions. The Mexican Revolution was not a gratuitous war. People rebelled against a cold-blooded autocrat who loved his country, but loved more his power.