Díaz and Land Reform
During the rule of Díaz, land companies had the power to take control of large amounts of territory that had belonged to Mexicans. The majority of Mexico's land had been controlled by about a thousand men. Their estates reached thousands and sometimes millions of acres, while ninety-seven percent of the population in the countryside owned no land. Mexico's lower and middle classes were disgruntled about the amount of favoritism that their government was giving to foreign businessmen. In other words, Díaz took away land from the poor and rewarded it to the wealthy. The few people that helped Díaz and gained his trust were given land, therefore allowing them to become extremely wealthy in comparison to the majority of citizens in the country.
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