Benito Juárez is reelected to yet another…

Benito Juárez is reelected to yet another term as president in 1871 despite a constitutional prohibition of reelections, provoking one of the losing candidates, Porfirio Díaz (a Liberal general and a hero of the French war, but increasingly conservative in outlook) to launch a rebellion against the president.

Mexico’s Conservative party had been so thoroughly discredited by its alliance with the invading French troops that it had effectively ceased to exist after the victory over the French occupation, and the Liberal party has been almost unchallenged as a political force during the first years of the "restored republic".