"Phew! This is the smell of the Free Beacon!"
As soon as Mexican Plutaco Elias Calles set foot in Rio de Janeiro, he couldn't help but take a deep breath of the air here, and then sighed.
Emilio Portes Hill did not ridicule his old friend's exaggerated words, but nodded in agreement with them.
"Rio de Janeiro is the shining star of Latin America and the beacon of freedom.
Look at this prosperous scene, this wide road, dense crowds, prosperous commerce, this prosperous and well-ordered order, you can't see it in Mexico."
“In the entire America, only New York can compare with it, but everything in the United States was built on the exploitation of Latin America and its colonies.
Portugal is the beacon of our Latin countries, and the system it implements is simply a model in Mexico's eyes.
Especially their control and suppression of the Caudillo traitorous class is what we in Mexico have always dreamed of." Pascual Ortiz Rubio commented while looking at the prosperous Rio de Janeiro.
Three Mexicans are Mexican revolutionaries. They came this time to inspect the Portuguese Empire.
The three of them are representatives of the patriotic and insightful people in Mexico. They are eager to find a way to save the country that can change Mexico's weakness, and Portugal is the savior in their minds.
Plutaco Elias Calles, Emilio Portes Hill, and Pascual Ortiz Rubio; these three people also left a strong mark on the history of Mexico
People, they are the founders of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party and the leaders of the Mexican miracle.
Since 1910, a turbulent national revolution has broken out in Mexico, with the revolutionary forces fighting resolutely against the Caudillo forces and foreign interference forces.
The revolutionary forces resolutely safeguarded national independence and dignity and opposed the interference of major powers. The idea spread throughout Mexico, but the reality was cruel.
Mexico's Caudillo government has the support of the United States, and the situation of the Revolutionary Party is very unoptimistic.
If it weren't for the fact that after the Cuban crisis, Portugal and the United States completely broke the balance and Portugal began to enter Mexico, the Mexican Revolutionary Party would really be isolated and helpless.
Since the independence of Mexico, the Caudillo class has been plundering peasant land, controlling various religious rules and precepts through exploitation, exercising spiritual rule in vast urban and rural areas, supporting authoritarian regimes, and maintaining an ignorant and backward social order.
By 1910, 95.6% of farmers in the country had lost their land. Landless farmers in Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Mexico State accounted for 99.5% of the total farmers, and most of them were reduced to debt bondage.
Farmers. According to statistics from that year, among the 15 million farmers in the country, 10 million were bonded farmers (including their families).
The notorious Caudillo President Diaz relied on "scientist" bureaucrats and politicians, regardless of Mexico's national interests, and opened the door to foreign investment. Capital from the United States, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries poured in.
Entered Mexico and controlled industrial sectors related to the national economy and people's livelihood.
As foreign capital robbed huge profits, Mexico suffered a serious fiscal deficit, and the Díaz government had to borrow heavily from foreign countries to make up for the deficit.
In 1880, Mexico's total foreign debt was only 191.4 million pesos, which increased to 823 million pesos in 1911. At the same time, the Díaz government also handed over Mexico's customs revenue to foreign banks.
, as a guarantee for borrowing. During the reign of Díaz, Mexico did not set up a heavy industrial enterprise belonging to national capital; foreign capital controlled the economic lifeline of this country with an absolute advantage.
At this time when the nation was in danger, the 1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico under the leadership of patriotic and insightful people.
In 1910, Díaz wanted to be re-elected as president for the seventh time. This made Mexicans unable to bear it any longer. No one wanted this bastard to stay in politics.
Mexican intellectuals supported Francisco Madero as the leader of the "Opposition to Re-election Party" and announced his candidacy as a free candidate.
Faced with the opposition's assassination, Díaz arrested Madero, held a sham election in June, and declared himself the winner.
After Madero was released through various means, he was forced to live in exile in the United States. He issued the "San Luis Potosi Plan" in San Antonio, Texas, calling for a revolutionary uprising on November 20.
Although the revolutionary uprising of 1910 started very poorly, Madero supporters in Mexico, including Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and other powerful patriotic revolutionaries, resolutely and continuously waged war against the government.
In the north, Pascual Orozco and Pancho Villa mobilized their troops to attack government garrisons; in the south, Zapata launched a bloody struggle against local political leaders.
Under the flames of the revolution, in the spring of 1911, the revolutionary army captured Juárez. In May, Díaz was forced to resign and fled abroad. The Días regime was destroyed. On November 6, Madero became president.
Although Madero's revolutionary government dominated Mexico, it was unstable from the beginning. Forced by the situation, Madero did not immediately realize the promises made before the revolution, including land and economic reforms.
As reforms slowed down, internal divisions emerged.
Zapata, angry that Madero would not immediately return the land to the dispossessed Indians, turned against him.
Madero's supporter Orozco was dissatisfied with the new government's slow pace of reforms and also launched an anti-government movement in the north.
As for the United States, which has always controlled Mexico, the American chaebols were worried that the new president Woodrow Wilson would be too compromising and that the Mexican Civil War would affect American business interests, so they also turned against Madero.
Soon, under the turbulent situation, Mexico once again fell into turmoil.
Tensions were high when troops led by Díaz's nephew Felix Díaz and federal troops commanded by Victoriano Huerta clashed in Mexico City.
On February 18, 1913, Huerta and Díaz signed the so-called "Embassy Plan" in the office of U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, agreeing to jointly oppose Madero and make Huerta the president.
The next day, Madero was arrested and forced to resign. Huerta became president. Madero was assassinated a few days later.
The revolutionary leader was assassinated, but the flames of revolution did not stop.
In the north, opposition to Huerta's arbitrary rule developed, with Pancho Villa, Alvaro Obregon and Venustiano Carranza forming an alliance. The revolutionary Carranza
Proposed the "Guadalupe Plan", demanding Huerta's resignation and restoring Mexico's independence, freedom, and peace.
Huerta, with the support of his American father and the Mexican Caudillo class, how could he compromise in the face of a revolutionary party that is weaker than himself?
Although the Mexican Revolutionary Party is weak and has suffered repeated blows in reality, the flame of national independence and freedom has burned the entire Mexico.
Today's intellectual revolutionaries in Mexico are bent on getting rid of the control of the United States by all means, destroying Caudillo, and pursuing the national interests of Mexican independence and freedom.
Under such circumstances, the Mexican Revolutionary Civil War continued to break out, and the Portuguese Empire did not hide it after the Cuban crisis. It naturally joined the situation and clearly supported the revolutionaries.
Portugal is not afraid of the United States now. As long as it can create obstacles for the United States and create trouble in the American backyard, it will spare no effort to fan the flames.
The Cuban crisis and the Mexican revolution were Portugal's attempts to intervene in the U.S. sphere of influence, and so far the results have been quite explosive.
This chapter has been completed!