Time in Mexico when Porfirio Diaz was dictator (1876-1910)

Liberal Dictatorship

Positivism

Spanish left some of the local governing sectors in tact to keep contentment within the colonies giving them enough power so that they need not be quelled with a standing army which the Spanish lacked in the New World

(During Hapsburg rule which ended in 1700)

"strong man"

favored force and sidregarded politics

master of patron/client relations

took the place of the church and crown

non-liberal