Francisco+Madero

Mexico's Home Page​ **Francisco Madero **

Francisco Madero was born Parras Coahuila on October 30, 1873. His family was the 5th richest family in all of Mexico, being his grandfather was into the making of wine and cotton on his ranch. Madero was very well educating, and was schooled in the United States, Austria and France.

After coming home from his studies, he became interested in politics. During the time he wasn't being elected, he had made his own newspaper where he wrote his ideas to the people. The people of Mexico saw him as crazy because Madero claimed to have talked to his brother on a regular basis, who died when he was three years old. He also said that he received political advice from the spirit of Jaurez, and even worse, as the people had though, Madero was a vegetarian. The soldiers were not able to take him seriously has he had a high pitched voiced and seemed very feminine. Because of this, it was hard for Madero to gain power.

Regardless of these problems, Madero decided to run for presidency against Diaz. Because Diaz was paranoid of losing his power, he jailed Madero, unable to kill him because of his high status. Set out on on bail, Madero gathered his supporters to rebel against Diaz's false treatment.