Porfirio Díaz's Plan of Tuxtepec, launched 150 years ago, would bring Mexico a 30-year dictatorship of the sort Díaz himself had vowed to end. It was during Díaz’s rule that capitalism became firmly rooted in Mexico, with railroads unfurling across the country, national products making millionaires out of Mexican businessmen on the world market and native elites fervently embracing European trends, leaving marks like the Palacio de Bellas Artes and Teatro Macedonio.