sentences:  The U.S. had aided the liberal government of Benito Juárez by not recognizing the French invaders and the puppet emperor that Mexican conservatives invited to rule over them, and the U.S. had also provided arms to the liberals once its own civil war was over.But Díaz was wary of the "colossus of the north" and the phrase "Poor Mexico!So far from God, so close to the United States" ("Pobre México