POWER POINT AUDIO-REVIEW DICTATORIAL REGIMES: PORFIRIO DÍAZ (MEXICO) JOSÉ ANTONIO PÁEZ & THE MANAGUA FAMILY ( VENEZUELA) MANUEL ESTRADA CABRERA ( GUATEMALA) • WHY DICTATORS????? “TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PEACE” ↓ “DICTATORS STATED THAT ONLY WITH THEIR GOVERNANCE ,IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO ATTRACT FOREIGN PEOPLE TO HAVE A BETTER SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT” • MANUEL ESTRADA QUETZALTENANGO, GUATEMALA JURIST AND POLITICIAN WHO BECAME DICTATOR AND RULED GUATEMALA FROM 1898 TO 1920 • JOSÉ ANTONIO PÁEZ BORN IN VENEZUELA—DIED IN NEW YORK VENEZUELAN SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN A LEADER IN THE COUNTRY’S INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT AND ITS FIRST PRESIDENT IN THE CRUCIAL EARLY YEARS OF VENEZUELAN INDEPENDENCE, HE LED THE COUNTRY AS A DICTATOR. • PORFIRIO DÍAZ BORN IN OAXACA-DIED IN PARIS, FRANCE SOLDIER AND PRESIDENT OF MEXICO (1877–80, 1884–1911) HE ESTABLISHED A STRONG CENTRALIZED STATE THAT HE HELD UNDER FIRM CONTROL FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES.
