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What if Porfirio Diaz hadn't run for President at the age of 80 in 1910?
Diaz continuing to run was the main cause of the revolution, but there was much discontent in the peasantry and agrarian classes already as well.
Who would succeed Diaz? Francisco Madero would likely run in 1910. Jose Yves Limantour (the technocratic finance minister) was seen as one of the most likely successors. Bernardo Reyes (the War Minister and former Governor of Nuevo Leone) was another potential successor, though Diaz shipped him off to Europe to keep him from power.
A 1910 election between Madero and Limantour seems fairly likely.
No undoing of the economic advances of Diaz's regime, the avoidance of a death toll that ranges between the high hundreds of thousands and two million, the prospect of more graduated land and labor reforms, and actual democracy in Mexico in the 20th century could all be pluses.