Carmen Romero Rubio

Carmen Romero Rubio y Castelló ( born January 20, 1864 in Tula, Tamaulipas, † June 25, 1944 in Mexico City) was the second wife of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.

Carmen Romero Rubio came from a very rich and respected family of Catalan descent. Her father, General Manuel Romero Rubio (1828-1895), was a follower and Foreign Minister Sebastián Lerdos, and from 1884 to 1895 Minister of the Interior of Mexico in the cabinet of the government of Porfirio Díaz.

She became known in 1881 through her marriage with Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, who she met during a visit to the American Embassy in Mexico City. She was at the time the wedding 17 years old Díaz a widower of 51 years. Because of their gentility, but especially because of their influence on the political decisions of her husband, who valued her judgment, she was extremely popular among the Mexican population. She promoted especially his reconciliation with the liberal Lerdisten and with the Catholics.

Politically significant is their impact on Díaz regarding the church question. As a deeply religious Catholic, she managed to bring about an approximation of the secular state and the Catholic Church.

The marriage ceremony was sponsored by Manuel Romero Rubio, who wanted to consolidate in this way the relationship between Díaz and the conservatives like former followers Lerdos. Díaz was based on the result even more on the middle class, which ensures peace in the country and his rule and strengthened. The marriage falls thus also with the beginning of the second phase of the rule Díaz ' together. His power base was the aristocracy, which he adapted himself increasingly in behavior and management style.

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• Http://www.mailxmail.com/curso/vida/laconstitucion/capitulo12.htm
• Mares, Roberto: Porfirio Díaz. 2nd edition, Mexico City, 2006. ISBN 970-666-703-2

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