ABSTRACT
Mexicos emancipation is hardly more than a political liberation. The Catholic monarchy was replaced by the idea of a sovereign state. The Mexicans never accepted them and finally repelled the French troops, captured Maximiliano in 1867, and put him before the firing squad. As popular talks had it, Mexico became the "mother of foreigners and the stepmother of Mexicans." Every four years Diaz methodically had himself reelected so that rich Mexicans and foreign businesses could continue to thrive. Francisco L Madero emerged and captivated the imagination of the Mexican middle classes in the capital and provincial cities. The peasants in the countryside and the working class in the cities turned to the newly mythified image of Madero. Many historians and political scientists, in contrast, identify him as the architect of modern Mexico.
