User blog:JorgeGG/Mexico (Doomsday:1983) - Some ideas for refactoring

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 * Mexico serves has a refuge country for americans (not necessarily a melting pot)
 * Largely untouched by nuclear strike.
 * Has to deal with guerilla warfare in southern frontier, due to the breakdown of central american countries
 * Has oil!!!, a commodity of large importance
 * Thanks to the maquilas and internal industrial development stands on good bases to develop.
 * Would look for control of the Caribean. Cuba too crippled in the short or mid-range to create sphere of influence.

Unplausible stuff.


 * Canadian style goverment (Governor - President), not plausible .Would keep present presidential system. Already very powerful to deal with a mayor crisis. Besides, the crisis would mean a break on the control the PRI has. It would be harder to control elections if people become critical of measures of emergency. Perhaps developing in the present system of the real world: PRI, PNA and PRD.
 * For a federal intervention, there must be constitutional reform (only Argentina has this mechanism). It would apply to the states bordering USA. On the states bordering central american countries no. Why?, agricultural interest and political cliques would seen it has a intervention on business has usual. (they are states more population then the northern ones, with a history on landowners, farmers and indigenous population). They would prefer troops stationed. Like it happened with the zapatista rebellion.
 * The northern states would be intervention, but the control would lapse back to the state population in perhaps in the mid- or long-range. Perhaps the cities with the direct frontier (like Juarez, Nuevo Laredo) would be abandoned has a precaution, but taken back in the mid-range.
 * The north americans (Canadians and US) would eventually integrated (has citizens or foreign residents) in Mexico. But must account anti-yankee feeling in some sectors. The riots or the political expression would happen before 1990.