Amada Díaz

Amada Díaz Quiñones (1867-1962) She was baptized as Deonicia Amancise de Jesús on April 8, 1867.1 She was the first daughter of Porfirio Díaz. She was born on April 7, 1867 from the relationship between Porfirio Díaz and Rafaela Quiñones, of whom practically only her name is known and that she was an indigenous person from the Municipality of Huamuxtitlán in the state of Guerrero. In 1879, when she was 12 years old, she moved to live with her father, since until this moment Rafaela gave her the parental authority that he had asked for since 1871. She suffered from great depression from the time her father was exiled (1911) until the death of her husband (1918).

Biography

Life with the Díaz Ortegas

Porfirio Díaz had 8 children with his first wife, Delfina Ortega: Porfirio Germán Díaz, Camilo Díaz, Laura Delfina de la Luz Díaz, Deodato Lucas Porfirio Díaz, Luz Aurora Victoria Díaz, Camilo Díaz and Victoria Francisca Díaz. Only Deodato Lucas Porfirio, “Porfirito”, and Luz Aurora Victoria, “Luz”, reached adulthood. They lived in Moneda, near Delfina's father, Manuel Ortega. When Don Porfirio took Amadita, as he was called, with Doña Delfina, she showed him as much love as her biological children.

On April 8, 1880, Delfina Ortega died and with this, President Porfirio Díaz took charge of her children: Amada, 13 years old; Porfirio, 7; and Luz, 5, until he married Carmen Romero Rubio in November 1881. The new mistress of Díaz, aged 17, was a good friend to Amada and a true mother to the general's young children.

Romantic life and marriage

Amada Díaz had two suitors: Fernando González Mantecón, son of former President Manuel González, and Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, a member of a wealthy family who became famous until they found him at a gay party, whom he met at a dance. spring 1887. They soon became enaged. On January 16, 1888, Archbishop Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos married them.

In 1892, they moved to a mansion that he had built, located in Plaza de la Reforma, 1, in front of the junction of Avenida Bucareli, Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez, in front of where the statue of Carlos IV was, " Little horse". The mansion was confiscated during the time of the revolution by the constitutionalists and was occupied by the troops of General Pablo González Garza.3 On May 25, 1911, after the resignation of Porfirio Díaz and Ramón Corral to the presidency and vice-presidency, respectively, Amada and her husband accompanied Don Porfirio and his family to the platform of San Lázaro to take their train to Veracruz, and from there they went into exile. The De la Torre-Díaz couple remained in the City.

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