Francisco S. Carvajal, representing the Díaz government in Mexico City, signed a peace convention with Dr. Francisco Vázquez Gómez, Madero himself, and Lic. José María Pino Suárez, all pictured here, to suspend the fighting. read more
The Treaty of Ciudad Juárez was a peace treaty signed between the then President of Mexico, Porfirio Díaz, and the revolutionary Francisco Madero on May 21, 1911. The treaty put an end to the fighting between forces supporting Madero and those of Díaz and thus concluded the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. read more
Madero had captured the Ciudad and Diaz realized that it was over and the inertia against him was too strong. That the treaty was signed in the city where he realized he was defeated was a symbolic move. read more
The Treaty of Ciudad Juarez is an important document of the Mexican Revolution. On Sunday, May 21, 1911, at 10 pm, Francisco Madero put his signature under this paper. Ciudad Juárez is a city in northern Mexico, in the state of Chihuahua, at the border to the US, right across from El Paso, Texas. read more