Porfiriato

President of Mexico (1830–1915)

1847-1901 armed conflicts on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico

thumb|left|upright|President Gen. Porfirio Díaz

thumb|right|200px|Cover of Regeneración, with portraits of the organizing board of PLM and European anarchists (1910)

In Mexico, the term Rurales (Spanish) is used to refer to two armed government forces. The historic Guardia Rural ('Rural Guard') was a rural mounted police force, founded by President Benito Juárez in 1861 and expanded by President Porfirio Díaz (r. 1876–1911). Under Díaz, it served as an effective force of repression and a counterweight to the Mexican Army during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rurales were dissolved during the Mexican Revolution.

armed conflicts between indigenous peoples and white people in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, from 1821 Spain, between 1533 and 1929

thumb|300px|Antonio V. Hernández Benavides and Pablo Macedo Saravia, founders of the Banco Central Mexicano (Mexican Central Bank) with Justo Sierra, minister for Education