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Mexico Patch Update
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    • So, been a bit. Long and short of it is work got very busy for me for a few months and I didn't have the energy to revisit content, if I'm being honest I still don't. It's hard to explain how legitmately exhausting it is to try and get back to where we were in USA content. So apologies again leaving content unfinished for the moment but we have a new patch coming.



    So the plan is I will start a playthrough of Mexico
     
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    • United Mexican States Part 1
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    • Alright let's Instituionalize the Revolution


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrWmvabdgw&ab_channel=EdgarHarford




    "So far from God, so close to the United States." A quote attributed to Mexican Dictator Porfirio Díaz.

    So this update covers four years of content for Mexico, which may not seem like a lot but we're going to do quite a bit in those four years. Also I have to say that poster above the quit button is probably the best piece of WW2 Propaganda IMHO.



    Mexico stands at a critical moment. The revolutionary uphevel at the beginning of the century is a distant memory, Mexico is now largely stable and prosperous, it's neutrality allows it to maintain good relations with both the Sphere and the OFN and it's president is a shrewd diplomat and politician. However all is not well, pressure internally and foreign may undo it's current prosperity. Factionalism and growing unhappiness over economic divisions threatens the dominance of the ruling PRI and President Mateos is more than halfway through his term.


    And here's Mexico, offically the United Mexican States.





    A look at recent Mexican history and how it diverged in TNO. With the Allies doing far worse than OTL and tenisons with the USA remaining over nationalization of Oil, Mexico never got involved in WW2. In fact it was able to benefit from the post war aftermath as the ruling PRI realized it needed to focus more on industralization and begin courting Japanese investments and Tourism. These led to the Mexican Miracle which brought a great deal of prosperty, and also corruption and some heavy handed tactics.


    The Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI rules Mexico as a De-Facto one party state and has for decades. It's ideology by this point focused primarily on maintaining Order through a mix of Left wing Populism, State Capitalism and brutal repression of dissidents. The party has a number of factions




    Here's an overview of the factionalism dominating the PRI and some of the various issues around the Mexican Miracle


    So offically PRI is a coalition but not really, and there is only one alternative party that really exists purely to make Mexico resemble an actual democracy. Of course there are much more radical groups outside of the halls of legal power.
     
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    • Oh that's a lot of arrows, don't worry about Foreign policy that doesn't have anything to show yet. As you can tell from the political policies what's on the books and what is reality can be quite different. Offically Mexico is a Multi-Party Democracy that's State Atheist but any real pretense to democracy is barely more than a fig leaf and we're well passed the days of the Goverment's war with the Catholic Church


    A Look at President Mateos. His term has been successful internal and a impressive balancing act diplomatically but there are problems. Unions and students are turning against Mateos and the PRI

    Secretary of the Interior is basically the closest thing to a Vice Presidency in Mexico and with President Mateos often abroad, many considerSecretary Ordaz here the real leader in Mexican politics



    Our Secretary of External Relations does a good job balancing our position but it seems he may not be long for his post


    Our Economics guy seems very solid at his job. Those are some damn good effects.


    Our military man has held a lot of positions over the years, mostly as governor of both parts of Baja


    On paper, Mexico is a democracy, and the PRI is the party of the revolution and the Mexican people. But as mentioned before, what is legally true and what is actually true don't align here. The Insutitutional revolution has become a dictatorship in all but name.

    And this dictatorship is far from flawless


    The Mexican Miracle has been quite the boon for Mexico, we must do what we can to ensure it does not falter or become a burden


    One of the big causes of the early revolution was land reform, which lead to agriculture in Mexico being federally owned and given out in allottments to rural communities. At first this provided a great deal of autonomy to the people of Mexico but corruption and neglect have taken quite the toll on the system


    PRI and the state as a whole have become quite dominated by the bureaucracy. While the system has improved things for decades it is also filled with political corruption and patronage networks. With the Bureaucracy often putting political needs over what's actually effective, increasing the burden on the state



    Yeah we don't have a very good military


    Now let's look at the assorted laws. Our constitution was revolutionary and quite progressive for it's time, but as the decades wore on many govs tended to use it and ignore it when it suited their interests.
     

    So offically we are unbiased and neutral but more recently we have come to say Fascism really sucks and must be opposed, which is good.


    So offically Mexico places very heavy restrictions on priests due to fustrations over clerical influence on politics in earlier Mexican history. However these restrictions led to a lot of unrest and international ire. As such many of the provisions have not been strictly enforced since 1938


    The resources of Mexico belong to Mexico as a whole, simple as that.


    Fear of Fascism has lead us to declare inciting unrest in and of itself is a criminal offense. And like most laws targetting Fascists, this has been used against the Left as well


    And a general look at the Corporatist system that dominates Mexico and how it works


    So here's our first mechanic, and I'm realizing now I did not click on the info thing like I should have. Anyways basically this looks at the various factions and groups that make up the PRI, how much power they have, how loyal they are, and how much cronyism has become an issue for them, though the red one can shift depending on the faction. In the center we have whatever crisis the Goverment is currently dealing with









    A look at the various factions of the PRI and the contrading situation we find ourselves in. A party that needs the workers yet can't abandon the Peasents, a party-state that is at once overburdened and held together by the corruption within it's bureaucracy. I suggest reading these, they're quite interesting. I mean you should be reading all these picks, but you should definitely read these.
     



    So the Hawaiian Missile Crisis is gone, cause it made no sense. In it's place we now have a crisis in Aleutian islands. Basically a Japanese pilot was shotdown over the islands. A plane that was not supposed to be there shotdown by weapons that shouldn't have been their either, leading to a very tense situation. President Mateos is trying resolve things diplomatically between the two great powers while Sec Ordaz holds down the homefront but the whole situation has Ordaz understandably quite nervous.



    A look at our economic situation. Curiously we're in our own sphere economically yet it's only us here, for the moment at least


    The overview...well it's less bad then Guangdong's at least.



    If you're wondering why so many could be unhappy with a Economic miracle, this is a big factor why. The economic differences between various states is often stark.



    While I'm not gonna cover all of them right now, because this update is long enough as is, the state cultures are nicely detailed I think


    Oh hey one 10 day focus, this LP should be easy.

    But yes, we find ourselves on the brink of war, Mateos thrust into a position to try and achieve peace between two nuclear powers


    Nixon is uh, not proving very open to Mateos' ideas.
     
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    Back home, Ordaz is in a state. as far as he's concerned President Mateos' dedication to neutrality will lead to nuclear war. To Ordaz the issue is far from neutral, Japan's violation of American air space with a spy plane far outstrips any concerns over treat violations. the Presidents insistance on an investigation ae going nowhere and tensions rise more and more by the day. So at 3:30 in the morning, always the best time to be making political decisions. Ordaz makes his own move, sending out his own proposition. Japan Apologies, the US returns the pilot and both sides backdown

    The proposal is quite the bombshell, particularly once it becomes clear that Mateos and the rest of the cabinet had no involvement


    Oradz's purposal pissed off Japan quite a bit, forcing Mateos to put together a new one as he desperately tried to save negotiations. No apology, more detailed with draws, and the Release of the pilot. This it seemed was acceptable to Nixon. The world can finally breath again as the two super powers have averted war.


    Despite how the last moments played out, Mateos comes away looking the hero.

    The President is returning home and as one can imagine, he is incredibly upset with Ordaz right now

    And now we turn to our actual first focus tree.


    So our first vote of this playthrough comes over a simple question, just how pissed off is President Mateos with Ordaz? On the one hand it's pretty clear Mateos was getting nowhere with Nixon and the longer the crisis dragged on the more it put everyone at risk. However Ordaz's actions seriously pissed off Japan, undermined Mexicos neutrality and nearly escalated one of the most dangerous situations in recent human history. So Mateos telling him to just get out or is he cursing out Mateos and all but threatening to throw him in prison

    [] Get Out!
    [] Get the Hell Out!
     
    [X] Get the Hell Out!
    This option sounds appropriately angry, given the circumstances.
     
    The Mexican Miracle GUI
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    • So if you recall in the first update I talked about how Mexico was distinctly state capitalist and very developmental. Yeah that's a big thing.


    Here is the Mexican Miracle GUI, fundmentally this isn't actually all that complicated. If you remember Guangdong, it's very similar when you boil it down, your goals are to get the lines to go up while keeping your economy in the green. Like this isn't that hard to play, but uh, there's a lot to look at.

    So the first screen of the Mexican Miracle is focused on GDP growth and how active the economies of each region are


    A look at what this economic stimulation means for us.


    Next we have Agronomics


    Agronomics is divided between stable crops and cash crops. Cash crops get us more money, production and increase how much of the rural population is moving to the cities (Which is also increased by mechanization) which we generally want because urban populations are generally better for the economy. While Stable crops improve the quality of life.


    Next we have population.




    The urban/rural divide is a bit of a balancing act because we generally want people coming into the Urban areas but this does create unemployment which have counteract with some of the PP options and other things. And we do fundmentally need a rural population so don't try to urban everything.

    Next we have Quality of Life. Which looks at the Rural to Urban Migration and the Quality of life for both groups



    a look at what that divide and migriation means for us on a more mechanical level.

    So that's a lot, but trust me, there's more. See this thing basically has a GUI within a GUI.
     
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    • Proyectos are various special construction projects the PRI can do to improve various regions and various parts of the economy. Mexico city begins with one in progress.


    All Regions have various unique projects and generic ones like building power plants and such


    And some that have special event chains tied to them.




    And it's at this point I I realized I did not explain the project phases and Corruption, but uh, that should be pretty self-explaining.


    And of course we can't have an Olympic event without overpriced Stadiums.

    So, I can't really make a vote over the GUI, I'd probably go insane. So here's my question, how often do you want to see this stuff, get a general overview of where things are economically? Every few updates or would you prefer to just ignore this save for big moments and the special projects?

    [] Give us a status report every few updates?
    [] Only show special projects and the big moments .
     
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