Científico

The Científicos (from

Leading Científicos included:

Secretary of the Interior from 1884 to 1895 was founding member of the group, and its original leader and protector. With his death, Limantour –his political protégé– commenced to direct the Científicos.^[1]^[2]
He also was the father in law of Porfirio Díaz.

José Yves Limantour (1854–1935), Ministro de Hacienda (Secretary of the Treasury) from 1893 until the fall of the Díaz regime in 1911; considered the political leader of the faction.
Justo Sierra, the leading intellectual and spokesman of the circle.
The writers and journalists
Emilio Rabasa (1856–1930), co-founders of the newspaper El Universal
(in 1888), both considered spokesmen for the Científicos.

Creel-Terrazas Family that dominated the northern state of Chihuahua
, of which he was governor from 1904 until the fall of the Díaz regime in 1911.

Luis Terrazas (1829–1923), Founder of the Creel-Terrazas Family, father-in-law of Enrique Creel, and one of the richest landowners in the Republic of Mexico; he helped to bankroll the faction.
The lawyers
Joaquín Casasús
.
governor of Coahuila, uncle to president Francisco I. Madero
.

Emilio Pimentel, lawyer, governor of Oaxaca from 1902 to 1911.
Rosendo Pineda, lawyer, influential backer of Porfirio Díaz in the state of Oaxaca.
Rafael Reyes Spíndola [es] (1860–1922), founder (in 1896) and publisher of the Mexico City newspaper El Imparcial, considered the "semi-official newspaper of the Porfiriato."

There were other factions within the Díaz government that were opposed to the Científicos, most notably that led by former general Bernardo Reyes.

References

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Martínez Vázquez, Víctor Raúl, editor. La revolución en Oaxaca, 1900-1930, p. 38.

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