Mexico Revolution was created to en the Porfiriato, a period of over 30 years during which the dictator Porfirio Diaz was the only president of Mexico and continued reelecting himself, during this time of Mexican history México had a great deal of French influence. During this time, laws were passed to allow the main concentration of land and wealth on the hands of a few landlords while the country person or peasant was forced to work in the Haciendas of these few rich, while some indigenous groups that didn’t agree were expelled from their lands and forced to leave under unbearable conditions and, sometimes they were made slaves were they were forced to literally work until death.
Diaz’s government allowed foreign investment to the extent where Mining, Oil, Railroad, textile and Sugar plantations were in hand of foreigners.
So the 20th century starts with the Mexican Revolution. The then President Diaz had called to elections to choose his successor, confident that he, again, could get away with it and get reelected or have one of his closest friends and allies elected, this way keeping the power (like he did for four years of his presidency); however the Anti Reelection party formed by Francisco I Madero and Jose Maria Pino Suarez won, Diaz, of course, did not recognize the elections results. As a reaction to this, Madero called to the rise in Arms through the Plan of San Luis.
Many groups joined the Mexico revolution, like Alvaro Obregon in the northeast in head of the middle working class; on the state of Chihuahua, Francisco Villa gathered a bunch of outlaws and ranchers; Venustiano Carranza gathered the Hacienda owners of the state of Coahuila and in the state of Morelos, Emiliano Zapata was in the head of numerous troops of indigenous people that were claiming back the lands that had been stripped off of them.
It all ended 10 months later when President Diaz resigned voluntarily and boarded a ship to live the rest of his days in France.
