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(Part 3)
Even further South, in modern day Northern Mexico, the people along the Rio Grande river felt inspired by the Texan revolt and mad their own attempt at independence, using the name of that very same river for the namesake of their Republic, the Republica del Rio Grande, which received support from Texan volunteers. Not only there, but also in the South of Mexico did the Yucatan peninsula secede at the will of the planter class due to the inability of the Central authorities to protect their crop from the still unsubdued Maya locals. After so much instability, Mexico eventually decided to adopt a federal system, but it was too little, too late. Combine thag with the aforementioned disconnect between the lower and upper classes, you have a nation which was incapable of seeing itself as unified, much less actually being so, unless there was clear and present external threat, whether real or perceived. These problems were never truly addressed, and all those who sought power to escape a life of tyranny or poverty did so by vying for control over the center, corrupting the very core of the nation. After this the resentment amongst the most unfortunate morphed into socialism in which the goal was not enrichment of the masses, but the celebration of their identity for the sake of feeling human, and ever since, the upper classes has placated them with this form of socialism while simultaneously keeping them in such a state to make them as malleable as possible. This is how you got a Morena government which gave washing machines to people to get them to vote for their party, becoming they will pledge allegiance to whoever bestows upon them the most goodies, at least until the next guy comes along and gives them more. This is why Mexico suffers from the “eternal gente pobre”. People who blame Mexico’s failure on the United States are either historically illiterate or overly biased.