OTL vs. ATL (¡Viva la Pepa!)

This page covers differences and changes from OTL and ATL in the timeline ¡Viva la Pepa!

Geopolitics

 * When the constitutional and liberal government of Spain (including Portugal and both countries' colonies) take over, a liberal coalition is formed by Spain and Great Britain against the conservative influence of the Holy Alliance of Austria, Russia and Prusia. These liberal nations alse create a commercial net in the Atlantic Sea and the Caribbean.
 * During the Revolutions of 1830, Spain and Greay Britain help the liberal government of Louis-Phillipe I and his July Monarchy to take over in France. He joins the liberal coalition and deports Ferdinand VII to Spain, where he is executed.
 * Due to the spanish presence in the continent, Bolívar achieves to impose a constitution of his design and become the first President for life. At his death without a successor, due to the death of Antonio José de Sucre some months before, the Federal War begins between centralists and federalists.
 * The liberal coalition supports the belgian revolutions. Peter II of Spain (OTL Peter I of Brazil and IV of Portugal) manages to get his son-in-law, Auguste de Beauharnais, to the belgian throne.
 * Civil disarray and fights flourish in the only former colonies that remain independent: Mexico, Central America and Colombia. Central America is the only one which has good relationships with Spain, such so that, when centralist take over, they ask for spanish help against federalist and foreign menaces. The central american provinces become a spanish protectorate, except for Belize, which becomes a british-spanish protectorate.
 * In the revolutins and wars of Italy, Charles Albert of Sardinia and Charles II of Parma align with the liberals Alliance of Four (Belgium, France, Great Britain and Spain). Charles manages to get the thrones of Modena and Lucca after their conservatives monarchs are overthrown. The Papacy also becomes liberal-aligned after Louis-Phillipe unveils a Carbonari plot against the spritiaul rule in Rome.
 * After the death of Peter II, a succession war begins between his daughter, Mary, supported by the Alliance of Four, mainly by his husband Augustus I of Belgium; against the Holy Alliance-supported Carlos María Isidoro de Borbón (like OTL Carlist Wars) and Miguel of Braganza (OTL Miguel I of Portugal). The war begins in 1834 and ends in 1841. Mary prooves to be far more liberal than his father and installs a federative constitution to give autonomy to the provinces, as a way to thank the federalist liberals who supported her in the war, and creates a parlaimentary monarchy just like Great Britain's.
 * In 1844 and 1845, several states rebel from Mexico (as did OTL Yucatan, Rio Grande, California, Tabasco and Texas, but all at the same time). The spaniards and their allies support the warlord Antonio López de Santa Anna and convince the different states to join the liberal and federal Spanish Monarchy.
 * The only state that does not join Spain is Texas, which joins the United States. The US denies to renounce the annexation of Texas and handle its territories to Spain, so the Alliance of Four invades the counrty. President David R. Atchinson signs peace in 1849, with half the US' territory lost to the allies, adn the southern states forces to accept the abolition of slavery, as slaves and indians helped the Allaince during the war. Finally Atchinson is overthrown by generals who think he represents a danger for the Union. Belgium, France, Great Britain and Spain become the "Protecting Powers" of the United States of America, with prerrogative to amend the constitution and holding the Executive Power. Their first amendements to the Constitution are known as the Bill og Protection.