Mexico becomes stable and a great place for foreign investment. The infrastructure improves and the country gets wealthier, but the new wealth is unevenly distributed. The vast majority of people are worse off than 100 years earlier, although the middle and working classes grow.
Expectations grow high for real change and are then frustrated for the great majority of the masses.
In 1908, Diaz grants an interview to James Creelman claiming that he will NOT run in the next election due to his advanced age. In response, Francisco Madero , a wealthy and powerful man from northern Mexico, decides to run in an effort to restore democracy. His platform is no re-election by anyone ever again. They are Marxist, very anti-Church and vow to eliminate capitalist society. Although they never gain power, almost all of their ideas will be incorporated into the Constitution of 1917.