Porfirio Diaz was a dictator in Mexico. He wanted to improve Mexico´s economic problems at all cost. However, even though he DID improve Mexico´s economy greatly, lifestlye and wages remained the same. For example, people who worked in mines earned the same 37 cents they earned even before earning their independence. Peasants had no land and everything was in hands of the elite and of foreign investors. The people in Mexico were starving, even when the economy was improving. This is extremely ironic, since Porfirio Diaz´s way of reasoning and to imrpove the coutry did not include it´s people.

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