History of Mexico (1983: Doomsday)

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Pre-doomsday
In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, conquered and colonized the territory, which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain which would eventually become Mexico as the colony gained independence in 1821. The post-independence period was characterized by economic instability, territorial secession and civil war, including foreign intervention, two empires and two long domestic dictatorships. The latter led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910, which culminated with the promulgation of the 1917 Constitution and the emergence of the country's current political system.

Post-doomsday: 1983-1984
September 25, 1983 saw several nuclear hits by Soviet missiles on the border cities, military bases and missile silos of the United States, resulting in the immediate deaths of a few million in both America and Mexico by the blasts and deaths of an estimated two million more due to fallout, radiation, disease and starvation through spring of 1984.

The major cities in Mexico affected by the nuke strikes on the USA were Tijuana, Baja California Norte; Juarez, Chihuahua; and Laredo, Coahuila. The electromagnetic pulses above the U.S. knocked out power and communications in Mexico's northern states of Baja California Norte; Sonora; Chihuahua; Coahuila; Nuevo Leon; and Tamaulipas.

The first wind debris from the attacks on the American cities and military bases near the border arrived in Mexico in the early morning of September 26. That day, a mass exodus south out of the United States, from California to Texas, began. This caught the Mexican border and police authorities unprepared, even as Mexican authorities and civliians tried to piece together just what had happened in the states. The mass of refugees overflowed health services and shelters in the border cities and towns, causing an eventual collapse.

Mexico City established contact with the governors of the six northern states and sent military troops to assist local and state police and medical personnel; the Red Cross joined the Catholic Church, various Protestant churches and other organizations in providing aid for the refugees, including food, clothing and medicine.

By September 28, the full scale of the catastrophe that hit America became apparent. President Miguel de la Madrid met with U.S. Ambassador John Gavin, recognizing him as the de facto representative of the United States, and began talks regarding the status of American refugees and for their care. The governors of the six Northern states ordered the evacuation of all the cities 10 kilometers north of the frontier with USA and their resettlement in refugee camps, which made the situation locally much more chaotic.

On October 2, de La Madrid addressed the Nation regarding what the government knew of the situation and measures that had been taken thus far. Because of the situation, he said he sent an urgent bill to Congress to temporally place authority of the six northern state governments and local governments within those states under the federal government, installing Federal Delegates with wide powers to deal with the varying situations they would face, as well as placing local and state law enforcement under military control, and placing the Army along the entire border from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico. The bill was approved by Federal Congress and enacted on October 3; a state of emergency for all of Mexico was also declared on October 3.

There were calls to federalize the six northern border states of Baja California Norte, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas into a unified "quarantine zone" for the millions of American survivors who crossed into Mexico; this was voted down by Congress on October 19.

During the next several days the federal government decreed the frontier open to all refugees and, with the assistance of the Red Cross, set up provisional health and refugee camps. The first effects of radioactive poisoning appeared within the local population and refugees by early October. As the region was already under the nationwide state of emergency, the Federal Delegates appointed by de la Madrid began implementing procedures government agencies had already set up in accordance with the conventions of the Red Cross.

Most residents and refugees in the areas of the northern states adjacent to the US were evacuated within days of the attack, and many outside the nuked areas had returned in the subsequent weeks and months.

Nearly 8.5 million people (of which over 7 million were Americans) were quarantined until deemed healthy enough to be released into the nation and begin their new lives.

By mid-October, the Army had reoccupied all frontier checkpoints not directly in nuked zones and began to establish patrols to protect incoming refugees and locals from bandits and looters. The Federal Delegates also temporarily banned private ownership of weapons, and the Army and local police were responsible for enforcing the collection of said weapons; their greatest difficulties were with criminals and with citizens who saw confiscation of their weapons as a threat from the Federal government.

Not widely known as the time was that the government had strongly urged all media in the nation to give out only general, government-approved information on the ongoing situation. Mexico City cracked down on remaining media within the northern states and fed the national media with information from the government authorities. In the early 2000s, personal accounts from Mexican and American reporters regarding the situation in the northern states after Doomsday began to circulate in Mexican newspapers and television.

In November, 1983, Tijuana, Juarez and Monterrey were designated as Red Cross "hospice cities" where tens of thousands Mexican nationals and American refugees were sent for shelter and health care. The situation in Tijuana, due to the multitude of blasts in adjacent San Diego, soon became so untenable that survivors and residents were sent south to Ensenada and east to Mexicalli and San Luis Rio Colorado. A similar situation developed in Juarez, which was adjacent to El Paso; local officials and military leaders were determined to keep the city tenable, but De La Madrid ordered the evacuation of residents and refugees to Chihuahua on December 26.

Control was temporarily federalized from the state governments, which continued to operate under control of the de la Madrid-appointed Federal Delegates until March 25, 1984. On that date, control was handed back to the state governments. However, Juarez, Laredo and Tijuana were shut down by federal order, accessible only to military or others approved by the government itself.

The Reagan/de la Madrid meeting
In March 1984, Mexican military made radio contact with the United States government at Mount Weather, Virginia. Many Mexican nationals and American refugees were overjoyed to hear that President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush and other officials had survived. Reagan declined de la Madrid's offer to relocate to facilities in Mexico City, and instead agreed to meet with Reagan in Mexico City as soon as possible.

Reagan met de la Madrid in Mexico City on May 5, 1984 with one request: for Mexico to absorb the millions of homeless Americans. The surviving officials in the federal government had concluded that America was a wasteland, and that the refugees would be better off in Mexico. De La Madrid was reportedly shocked that Reagan would choose to leave, and again offered Mexico City as a site for the American government. Reagan declined, as the decision had already been made to evacuate the federal government to Australia. De La Madrid agreed for Mexico to accept the refugees, and to receive a large portion of what remained of American resources, specifically financial and military assets, as compensation.

Contact was also made with communities in western Texas in 1984, leading to ties between the fledging group of cities in the region and the Mexican government. With communications between Australia (the intended destination of Reagan, Vice President George Bush and others in the US Government) and Mexico still down due to the US-Soviet exchange on Doomsday, de la Madrid authorized Mexican military expeditions to other parts of the US near the quarantine zone.

Some of these expeditions were led by American Army and Marine commanders who were allowed to stay as part of the American refugee contingent, and made part of the Mexican Army. Military records released in 2005 indicate that San Diego and Los Angeles were "a death zone" filled with rubble and radioactivity; other records include a report of Mexican military ambushed by cannibal gangs in the outskirts of Phoenix and a mass suicide in a New Mexico town.

The 1985 earthquake
On September 19, 1985, an earthquake with the epicenter in Mexico City killed approximately 10,000 and destroyed over 400 buildings in the capital. This single event had a great impact on all facets of Mexican society and government with repercussions being felt years after the event.

The magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck at 7:19 central time. The complete seismic event consisted of four quakes. A pre-event quake of magnitude 5.2 occurred on May 28; the main and most powerful shock occurred on September 19, followed by aftershocks on September 20 of magnitude 7.5 and a final one on April 30, 1985 of magnitude 7.0. The quakes were located off the Mexican Pacific coast, more than 350 km away, but due to strength of the quake and the fact that Mexico City sits on an old lakebed, Mexico City suffered major damage. The event caused between three and four billion USD in damage as 412 buildings collapsed and another 3,124 were seriously damaged in the city. While the number is in dispute, the most-often cited number of deaths is about an estimated 10,000 people.

The earthquakes created many political difficulties for the then-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) or Institutional Revolutionary Party. The crisis in and of itself would have tested the capabilities of Mexico or any wealthier country pre-Doomsday, but in the post-Doomsday environment party members from de la Madrid down to local party bosses did things to make the situation worse than it already was.

Who was helped, and how much, was determined by one's standing with the PRI; this even affected the American refugees, although humanitarian concerns led the PRI to back off of "taking" from the refugees still trying to integrate themselves into Mexican society. In regards to Mexican nationals, however, party members got preferential treatment and politicial opponents got the opposite.

In the days after the earthquake the military assisted factory owners in retrieving their machinery rather than in removing the bodies of dead factory workers. At many levels of the government, who was helped and by how much was determined by one’s standing vis-à-vis the PRI. Those belonging to the party received preference and those considered opposition received the runaround.

The government’s response to the earthquake was widely criticized throughout Mexican society, with the government seen as authoritarian and incompetent. Finally, the PRI decided it couldn't handle the crisis alone and sought help from competiting political groups. These groups took advantage of their opportunities, especially at the local, grassroots level. One of the most influential groups was the Sindicato Nacional de Costureras united to form the Coordinadora Única de Damnificados (CUD).

CUD and other popular movement representatives met with head of the Secretariat of Urban Development and Ecology (SEDUE) Guillermo Carrillo Arena on September 27 Carrillo Arena at first insisted that the movements incorporate themselves into the PRI before gaining any concessions. This was refused. Many media outlets expressed support for the popular movements and marches like that of October 2, demanding that the reconstruction process be more “democratic,” meaning the inclusion of non-PRI political organizations into the decision-making process. On October 11, the President granted a seven-minute audience to the heads of a dozen popular movements, which turned into a 45-minute meeting where de la Madrid was handed a document outlining what would remain the movements’ core demands: expropriation of all condemned buildings, followed by a “popular” and “democratic” reconstruction project which would include the active participation of the community movement. De la Madrid conceded some with the expropriation of 5,500 properties in the four most affected boroughs.

After the government created the Programa de Renovación Habitacional Popular (PRHP) on October 14 to help deal with the crisis, friction between the government and community groups grew again, PRHP used PRI-membership as a requirement to be included into the census of damnificados. More protests followed on 26 October calling for, among other things, the firing of SEDUE head Carrillo Arena. Things got worse through February 1986, mostly due to the ineffectiveness of SEDUE and PRHP. Finally Carrillo Arena was fired from SEDUE and replaced by Manuel Camacho Solís.

In March, only weeks after taking office, Camacho Solís changed the charged atmosphere between SEDUE and the community groups. He actively integrated Tlateloloco citizen groups into a new program meant for that area, defusing the most volatile area of the city. Camacho Solís continued to work to integrate and smooth relations between his agency and the community groups. On 16 May 1986, Camacho Solís met with the heads of all the major groups. He offered a commitment to build 48,000 housing units in one year if the groups would all sign a “Convenio de concertación democrática para la reconstrucción de vivienda” (Democratic agreement for the reconstruction of housing). Basically, this document required the cooperation of community groups in exchange for solid commitments from the agency. All sides would compromise in order to get something done. The convenio generally worked; movements like CUD moderated their stances and agencies like SEDUE and PRHP made progress in rebuilding housing, regardless of political affiliation.

At the time of the earthquake, Mexico was still dealing with Doomsday's drastic effects on its economy, causing serious political problems for the PRI. Much of the PRI’s authoritarian nature was tolerated because the country had seen four decades of economic expansion of six percent or better. When this disappeared, the PRI’s power base began to shrink. Its reputation was damaged further when the government seemed to be deliberately downplaying the number of earthquake victims. President de la Madrid made relatively few public appearances afterwards and during those he did, he received strong heckling, in contrast to the near-reverence that past presidents enjoyed at such events.

The severe damage in so many buildings, including many public works projects construction to house the rapidly growing population of Mexico City, were blamed on lax enforcement of building codes. Critics argued that the lack of enforcement of such codes was indicative of corrupt practices in all levels of government.

The stepping-in of non-PRI organizations to take over where the government could not also took its toll on PRI’s reputation.

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West Texas and the 'refugee atrocities'
As the Mexican government struggled to reassert itself, a group of military officials angered over the "destruction" of northern Mexico by the events of Doomsday decided to use the events to cut off relations with fledgling West Texas and perhaps force the American refugees out of Mexico altogether. As the Federal government struggled to keep order throughout the nation, these military officials chose to take over military control of the region and evacuate the border entirely. They then posted forces at every possible entry point from the US into Mexico; in an infamous meeting on December 14, 1985, the military told West Texas representatives the border was being shut down permanently.

These military leaders also authorized "forceful methods" to control the American refugee population, some of which were borderline atrocities.

The end result was the official severing of relations between Mexico and West Texas, ties that were only reestablished in 2009.

However, after the knowledge of the military officials' actions became known to de la Madrid and other government officials, the leaders of the coup were courtmartialed, or demoted in rank and stripped of their authority. Two colonels and 17 soldiers were sentenced to life in prison after admitting to separating wives and daughters from some American refugee families and not only using them for sexual purposes, but also prostituting them out for money.

American refugees who had established themselves in the Mexican business community tried to establish relations with the nation known as West Texas, only to learn that it had officially became isolationalist.

This led to many unauthorized meetings along the border between Texans, American refugees who had settled in Mexico and Mexican nationals interested in doing business in Texas or helping the region for humanitaritan reasons. This led to the creation of an underground market, where goods were traded back and forth. Eventually, the isolationaist West Texas government looked the other way in regards to legal goods, while the Mexican government more closely oversaw the trade from its side of the border (and waited for political conditions to change in West Texas to allow for official contacts to be reestablished).

In 1988 a Baja California Sur senator proposed formally invading West Texas and replacing its government with one led by a puppet governor from the American refugee population; his idea was soundly rejected, especially after it was learned the idea originally came from one of the Mexican generals who had been courtmartialed in the wake of the military's actions after the 1985 earthquake.

A new capital: Mexica
In the wake of the earthquake, and with the knowledge that aid from outside Mexico would be nonexistent for years, a movement began to move the capital from Mexico City. The movement gained steam, especially as the PRI saw it as an opportunity to allow both opposition parties and refugees to contribute in a tangible way; millions of jobs would be created in the construction of the capital city, and the reconstruction of Mexico City.

In 1987, Congress approved a bill that would create a new capital city; it was officially named Mexica in July 1987, a measure supported by several influential PRI leaders and by a number of popular figures. The city would be the center of a new federal capital district located in Michoacan state, carved in part from the mountains there. The site was chosen for its central location between Mexico City and Guadalajara (the largest cities in Mexico at the time), and for existing infrastructure that would allow for a quicker building, and settling, of Mexica. The city was designed by world-renowned architects from both Mexico and Brazil, using the old Aztec capital of Tenochtilan as their model. Construction began in September of 1987.

American refugees resettled
In line with the creation of Mexica, Congress also passed several bills designed to help house the estimated 9.2 million Americans living in the country who emigrated either from the United States or from Central America. Mexica and Mexico City would become the eventual destinations for many of the immigrants, but sizable American communities would also arise in Acapulco, Guadalajara, Tampico and Cabo San Lucas.

This created tensions amongst some nationals who were resentful of the PRI's alleged "pampering" of the refugees, and whom blamed the refugees for Doomsday (despite the fact that none of them could have possibly started the war). Allegations of "your war" was increasingly directed at Americans throughout the nation; in isolated incidents throughout 1987, five Americans were murdered by Mexican gangs, or individuals.

Those incidents further heightened tensions between the two groups, and on several occasions throughout 1988 the Army was called in to quell tensions in refugee camps and neighborhoods throughout the country. Radical nationalist groups were already calling for the relocation of all refugees to the self-isolated country of West Texas, and were further incensed when none of the three Presidential candidates in 1988 - Carlos Salinas of the PRI; Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the PRD (National Democratic Front); and Manuel Clouthier of the PRD (National Action Party) - entertained their call to export all American refugees out of the country.

1988 Presidential election

Salinas won the election - the last not to involve American refugees - with 50 percent of the vote. Over the next few years, he held true to his campaign promises in several areas, and those initiatives have been credited with helping Mexico attain near economic equality with the South American nations, the ANZC and Singapore in the post-Doomsday economic world. They include: More to come...
 * promoting various incentives designed to fully integrate American refugees into all aspects of Mexican life, including the business and educational sectors
 * integrating surviving U.S. Navy and American civilian vessels to secure oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico
 * seeking to restore relations with West Texas (Salinas was rebuffed), then leading moves to allow for "unofficial, private" trade between Mexican individuals and "private individuals in the former United States of legal, lawful goods", hoping it would lead to West Texas opening itself up for business
 * reversal of the 1982 nationalization of all banks
 * restoration of the nation's official relationships with the Roman Catholic Church, which had its unofficial headquarters in Rio de Janeiro
 * changing land property investigation
 * and his biggest initiative, negotiating a free trade agreement with Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the newly-formed United American Republic and East Caribbean Federation

Oil and the Gulf of Mexico
With the United States all but nonexistent in the region, and Cuba in no shape to do anything beyond its own borders, Mexico decided to begin steps to take practical control of the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. President Reagan had ceded control of American interest in the Gulf to Mexico (or to Mexican subsidiaries of American oil companies) as one condition of Mexico accepting American refugees.

In 1984, and then again in 1986 after the nation began full recovery from the Mexico City earthquake, the government began sending out naval and coast guard forces to investigate the region. They were looking for workable drilling stations, and for signs of radiation that would hamper drilling efforts. After being elected to the Presidency, Salinas authorized the Mexican Navy to help Mexican oil companies secure the sites.

By 1989, Mexican oil companies had established or reestablished presences in the western half of the Gulf of Mexico, most of the oil was targeted for domestic and military use, with civilians being urged to conserve as much oil as possible, through such measures as carpools and increased use of public transportation. Mexico also looked to its native and refugee engineers to begin research and development of engines that would provide increased fuel mileage, as well as alternative fuels.

Limited sales to the East Caribbean Federation and Puerto Rico had resumed.

The Yucatan and Chiapas uprisings
Doomsday led to an influx of refugees into Yucatán and Chiapas from Central American nations undergoing chaotic changes in the wake of the Third World War. Indigenous groups within the two Mexican states were unhappy over the PDI's perceived incompetence in stemming the refugee surge and its inability to stem the rapidly failing local economy. They saw the chaos as their best chance for Yucatan and Chiapas to separate from Mexico and form their own nations.

Increased protests, and uprisings led President de la Madrid to send Army troops into Chiapas and Yucatan on May 10, 1987.

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1990s: The refugee riots, and the Torreon accords
Political and cultural tension from Mexican nationals in regards to the refugees began to create tension after the 1985 earthquake. Tensions gradually built up, and cumulated with riots in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Tampico and Acapulco by both nationals and refugees in the spring and summer of 1991.

President Carlos Salinas - already facing fierce resistance from all parties after his aborted attempt to shut down Mexico City's largest refinery to combat air pollution - spearheaded several meetings with refugee and party leaders for two purposes: stop the violence and peacefully integrate Americans into Mexican society, once and for all.

On September 24, 1991, the "Torreon accords" were signed by Salinas, ranking government leaders, and the recognized leaders of the refugee community in the public and private sector. One of the leaders was George W. Bush, the son of U.S. President George H.W. Bush.

To this end, several neighborhoods in and around Mexico City, Guadalajara, Tampico and Acapulco were formally nationalized and set aside for American refugee settlement (formalizing what had gone on for the past several years). Several government initiatives in regards to employment, ownership of homes, educational opportunities and funding to start businesses were proposed and passed by Congress. Most importantly, refugees were given the status of dual citizenship - as if they were both full Mexican citizens and f full American citizens (this would be revisited, and revised, in 2002).

Refugees who wanted to relocate to Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand or to West Texas would be allowed to do so; only 20,000 people accepted that offer. The vast majority of refugees who still remained in Mexico chose to stay and continue to build their new lives in Mexico.

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1990s: Construction of the new capital begins
January, 1990 - The first civilians are moved into the new capital city of Mexico. Fifteen former Americans, all representing refugee groups in various cities, are now part of the Mexican congress and July 4th is made a national holiday in honor of the survivors - "Día de los Sobrevivientes".

A proposed new constitution, including the creation of the position of Governor General as a balance to presidential power, and with the two major parties (PAN and PRD) alternating both positions every four years, is not approved. Party leaders and other influential government officials decide to move towards adopting a U.S.-style government, but there is resistance from Mexican nationals concerned about the perceived increasing "Americanization" of Mexico.

The Yucatan War
The war that came to become known as "Mexico's Vietnam" began in earnest on February 9, 1988, when insurgents launched a series of guerrilla attacks on Army troops throughout Yucatan, killing 15 soldiers and injuring 11 more.

Over the next several years, the Mexican Army - helped by efforts amongst the American refugees to be peaceful despite ongoing tension surrounding their presence, and by the northern states ably patrolling the US border - sent much of its forces into Mexico's southern states and particularly Yucatan.

Aided by outside assistance in weapons and manpower, the insurgents eventually took de facto control of the state in 1992; as more and more Mexican soldiers died in the never-ending conflict, public opinion amongst Mexicans gradually shifted from support for overthrowing the resurgents to leaving Yucatan to fend for itself.

Salinas himself changed his opinion from winning the war at all costs to negotiating with the insurgents, and was opposed by military leaders the entire way. Only when it became clear that the military was clearly losing the war and that nothing short of a nuclear bombing would defeat the insurgents, did the military began working on a plan for withdrawal from the region.

On October 18, 1993, a ceasefire was called. Yucatan formally declared itself as the Republic of Yucatan on October 19 and received its first ambassador - from Nicaragua - on October 30. On November 9, Mexican President Salinas and Yucatan independence leaders sign a treaty bringing an end to the war and giving Mexico's formal sanction to the creation of a Yucatan Republic. Mexico formally recognized the new nation on November 21.

Dia del Norte
On October 1, 1993, after much debate, Mexico ordered the cities of Tijuana, Juarez, Laredo and a few others near targeted areas on the U.S. side of the border officially abandoned for 20 years. In turn, the government declared the day an official holiday, know as Dia del Norte (Day of the North).

The day took on additional significance for the residents of the abandoned areas and for Mexicans who had relatives and friends killed on Doomsday. Workers were given the day off nationwide in all non-essential industries, and tributes to the abandoned cities and to Mexicans killed on Doomsday were played all day on television and radio. The American refugees were not forgotten, as they were honored by President Salinas, and the major networks emphasized the human side of the tragedy when talking about the refugees.

That evening, Mexico's national football team played Australia in a friendly match in Monterrey Stadium, a place where some of the dead from Doomsday were housed 10 years earlier. The match raised 500,000 pesos for refugee relief.

Monterrey became the largest city in the north, but the relocation of refugees to Chihuahua, Victoria and La Paz was advantageous to sparking the giant growth of those cities into de facto replacements for the abandoned metropolises.

1994 Presidential election
Ernesto Zedillo won the Mexican presidential election in 1994, perhaps more from the efforts of outgoing President Salinas than his own efforts.

Zedillo served as the campaign manager for Luis Donaldo Colosio, the PRI candidate for the impending 1994 Presidential election. Colosio had advocated open talks with the nationalists fighting Mexico in the Yucatan War and with representatives of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, both which were opposed by the PRI and by then-President Salinas, putting

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The end of an era, and the beginning of a new
On May 1, 1995, the official U.S. Government in Canberra comes to an end after 219 years. Flags are flown at half-mast all over Mexico.

On September 16, 1995, the new capital of Mexica is finally formally inaugurated. The full move of the government into Mexica had been postponed during the Yucatan War. The federal district of Mexico City is absorbed into Mexico State and the new federal capital district of Mexica is named the Distrito Capital Federal, or DCF

2000 Presidential election
Vicente Fox - garnering support from the American refugee population - won as the candidate of a group representing the National Action Party, the Green Party and the Liberty Party (a political party made up of moderate and liberal ex-Americans).

2000s
2001 - Mexican military begins exploring former Arizona and New Mexico, being careful to respect the wishes of West Texas to be left alone.

Contact with Dinetah warriors is made 45 kilometers northwest of former Albuquerque.

2004 - The American caucus in the congress pushes for membership in the ANZC.

2008 - Mexico joins the. At the same time, a move to repopulate Juarez, TIjuana and Laredo is pushed by northern Congressmen.

September 16, 2008 - Riots erupt all over Mexican cities on Independence Day because of food shortages and forced water rationing. Right-wing extremists use the situation to call for an end to immigration and closing the borders at Istmo-Chiapas and Yucatán. The "México Primero" party is formed with dozens of Catholic defectors from the PAN already in congress. They demand the annexation of the Central American states, the creation of reservations for all "Indian insurgents" and for Catholicism to be made the official religion.



April 10, 2009 - After months of killings and kidnappings by the MP Camisas Doradas (Gold Shirts), 5 million people march on Mexica and Mexico City in protest of the MP Party and demand it be disbanded and its leaders arrested. The "Good Friday Riots" result in the death of two MP Deputies, Ricardo Sullivan and Marco Antonio Cavuto on the streets of the capital. Several MP leaders escape to Cuba with the help of the Catholic Church as most of the others are arrested.