how did porfirio díaz restore conservatism to mexico following benito juárez’s regime?

When it became clear that Madero would win, Díaz panicked and began clamping down. That major economic shift allowed rapid economic and technological change, an openness to cultural innovation, increasing urbanization, and shifts in societal attitudes of elites. The Rurales and their horses could be loaded on trains and dispatched to impose order.[20][21]. It was intended for foreign consumption only, but it was leaked into a Mexico City newspaper and aroused expectations. In November he returned to Mexico to lead the revolt but the support his allies had promised him failed to materialise and he had to retreat back to the US. Homosexuality remained clandestine and private in general. He regularly jailed editors of publications that criticized him or his policies, to the point where no newspaper publishers were brave enough to try. The slogan of the Porfiriato, “order and progress,” affirmed that without political order, economic development and growth—progress—was impossible. Even though Díaz won the “election,” Madero had shown the world that the power of the dictator was waning. In central and southern Mexico, the state increasingly undermined the political structure of rule and the loss of community land had a significant impact, but traditional ways persisted, especially in places that produced for the regional rather than the export market. Their discontent led to agitation, but the formation of combative industrial labor organizations in the later nineteenth century can be seen as roots of the modern labor movement in Mexico. Planners viewed inadequate drainage, sewage treatment, and lack of access to clean, potable water as solvable problems using scientific methods. French, William. In September the central core of Mexico city was decorated and lit with electric lights many bedecked with flowers. Rumors abounded that the son-in-law of Porfirio Díaz was one of those arrested, but released. Díaz began negotiating with Madero’s uncle Ernesto Madero, promising reforms if peace were restored. Morgan, Tony. 67–68, Coatsworth,  John H. "Obstacles to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," American Historical Review vol. As he left Mexico, he reportedly prophesized that “Madero has released a tiger, let us see if he can control it.”[52], Bunker, Steven B. and William H. Beezley. Investors would be unwilling to risk their capital if political conditions were unstable.[13][14]. The club provided a place for elite social gatherings. The construction of railways gave the government more effective control of many regions of Mexico that had maintained a level of independence due to their distance from the capital. The Spanish ambassador, the Marquis of Polavieja returned items of historical importance to Mexico, including the uniform of Father Morelos, a portrait, and other relics of independence in a ceremony at the National Palace, with the diplomatic corps in attendance, as well as Mexican army officers.