Editing History of Mexico (section)

===Election of 1910 and popular rebellion===

Porfirio Díaz announced in an interview with a US journalist [[James Creelman]] that he would not run for president in 1910. This set off a spate of political activity by potential candidates, including [[Francisco I. Madero]], a member of one of Mexico's richest families. Madero was part of the Anti-Reelectionist Party, whose main platform was the end of the Díaz regime. But Díaz reversed his decision to retire and ran again. He created the office of vice president, which could have been a mechanism to ease the presidential transition. But Díaz chose a politically unpalatable running mate, [[Ramón Corral]], over a popular military man, [[Bernardo Reyes]], and a popular civilian [[Francisco I. Madero]]. He sent Reyes on a "study mission" to Europe and jailed Madero. Official election results declared that Díaz had won almost unanimously, and Madero received only a few hundred votes. This fraud was too blatant, and riots broke out. Uprisings against Díaz occurred in the fall of 1910, particularly in Mexico's North and the southern state of [[Morelos]]. Helping unite opposition forces was a political plan drafted by Madero, the [[Plan of San Luis Potosí]], in which he called on the Mexican people to take up arms and fight against the Díaz government. The rising was set for November 20, 1910. Madero escaped from prison to [[San Antonio, Texas]], where he began preparing to overthrow Díaz—an action today considered the start of the [[Mexican Revolution]]. Díaz tried to use the Army to suppress the revolts, but Revolutionary forces—led by, among others, [[Emiliano Zapata]] in the South, [[Pancho Villa]] and [[Pascual Orozco]] in the North, and [[Venustiano Carranza]]—defeated the [[Federal Army]].

Díaz resigned in May 1911 for the "sake of the nation's peace." The terms of his resignation were spelled out in the [[Treaty of Ciudad Juárez]], but it also called for an interim presidency and new elections to be held. [[Francisco León de la Barra]] served as interim president. The Federal Army, although defeated by the northern revolutionaries, was kept intact. [[Francisco I. Madero]], whose 1910 [[Plan of San Luis Potosí]] had helped mobilize forces opposed to Díaz, accepted the political settlement. He campaigned in the [[1911 Mexican general election|presidential elections of October 1911]], won decisively, and was inaugurated in November 1911.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Francisco I. Madero 1873–1913 |url=http://www.gob.mx/epn/es/articulos/francisco-i-madero-1873-1913 |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=gob.mx |language=es}}</ref>