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Plan de la Noria

Díaz declared himself a candidate for presidential elections scheduled for August 1867 Meanwhile, President Juarez proposed certain amendments to the constitution, and opponents of them began to coalesce around Diaz's campaign. Juárez subsequently won the presidential election and began a new term scheduled to end on 30 November 1871.

Juárez controversially once more declared his candidacy for the 1871 elections which he won again against Díaz. Supporters of Diaz accused the government of engaging in election fraud, refused to recognize Juárez as the legitimate president, and prepared to take up arms. The subsequent insurrection would come to be known as the Plan de la Noria from the eponymous Oaxacan town in which the revolution was proclaimed on 8 November 1871.

Supporting revolts flared up across the country, but Juárez sustained himself against them until dying in office on 18 July 1872, the presidency passing on to the legal successor Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada.

President Lerdo offered an amnesty to the rebels in July 1872, an offer which many commanders subsequently took. Diaz himself refused it, and on 1 August, sent a letter to the president urging a modification of the amnesty terms and urging an extension for upcoming presidential elections in October ostensibly to allow rebellious regions to fully participate. The president was absolutely unyielding but so was Diaz, who urged Lerdo, in a later communication to also initiate constitutional reforms to prohibit presidential reelection.

As more rebel commanders yielded and the October elections came and went with Lerdo winning an overwhelming majority of votes, Diaz realized that his case was hopeless and finally submitted unconditionally before the amnesty in late October.