Porfiriato
Period of authoritarian rule in Mexico (1876β1911)
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The Porfiriato or Porfirismo (, Spanish: [poΙΎfiΛΙΎjato]), coined by Mexican historian Daniel CosΓo Villegas, is a term given to the period when General Porfirio DΓaz ruled Mexico under an authoritarian military dictatorship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Seizing power in a coup in 1876, DΓaz pursued a policy of "order and progress",...