President Benito Juárez and General Porfirio Díaz: Reconstruction of their Break-Up in the Summer of 1867

doi:10.5507/ho.2024.008

Historica Olomucensia 1 (2024), 1-21 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2024.008

President Benito Juárez and General Porfirio Díaz: Reconstruction of their Break-Up in the Summer of 1867

Carlos Tello Díaz: Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe; Mexico's National University (UNAM)

The work reconstructs the history of the breakdown of the relationship between president Benito Juárez and general Porfirio Díaz in the Summer of 1867, after the victory of the Mexican Republic against the French Intervention and the Empire of Maximilian. At that time, the members of the liberal party divided themselves into two groups: those who were in favour of the re-election of Juárez and those who were against it, and the latter decided that their candidate would be Díaz, partly because he was the most popular general of the Republic, partly because he had shown to be an able administrator of the states under his command in the most populous part of Mexico. The methodology makes exhaustive use of primary sources, on the basis of academic literature published on the subject.

Keywords: Mexican history; Benito Juárez; Porfirio Díaz; Liberal party; Elections 1867; convocatoria

Received: October 25, 2023; Revised: January 19, 2024; Accepted: January 22, 2024; Published: August 6, 2024 Show citation

Díaz, C.T. (2024). President Benito Juárez and General Porfirio Díaz: Reconstruction of their Break-Up in the Summer of 1867. Historica Olomucensia, 65(1), 1-21. doi: 10.5507/ho.2024.008

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