Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico - Hardcoverby Kevin M. Anzzolin (Author) During Porfirio Daz's thirty year rule, Mexico dealt with the press in disparate ways in hopes of forging an informed and, above all, orderly citizenry. Even as innumerable journalists were sent to prison on exaggerated and unfair charges of defamation or slander, Daz's government subsidized multiple newspapers to expand literacy and to aggrandize the image of the regime. In Guardians of Discourse Kevin M. Anzzolin