 During the same time period, uprisings against the government under Porfirio Díaz in the agricultural south of the state were brutally repressed.Unrest against the Díaz regime continued until the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution ousted him from power.The major event leading up to this war in Veracruz was the cigar-makers strike of 1905, when more than 5,000 workers of the "El Valle Nacional" company walked off the job.