Just as the title says, what happens if there's a Catholic theocracy is being formed in Latin Americas, whether as a republic or monarchy?

It can be formed from the Spanish or Portuguese colonies after independence from their former colonial master.

How will this affect on the Americas with an Catholic Theocracy in the Latin American continent?
 
Just as the title says, what happens if there's a Catholic theocracy is being formed in Latin Americas, whether as a republic or monarchy?

It can be formed from the Spanish or Portuguese colonies after independence from their former colonial master.

How will this affect on the Americas with an Catholic Theocracy in the Latin American continent?
You could Argue that Paraguay during the
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia's goverment was a theocracy, as his dictatoship was backed, by The Church in exchange of a preponderant power and influence of the Church in The Daily live and political action of the Paraguayan people.
Or you want an Archibishop or similar as secular ruler of a Latin América territory, a la Hoy Román Empire and their prince-bishops?
 
Is there any way to get Jesuit Paraguay to survive, possibly as a buffer between Spanish and Portuguese territory? If so, there you go.
 
I have no idea how this would occur, but perhaps the papacy is forced out of Rome somehow and is given land in SA by Spain/Portugal?
 
I have no idea how this would occur, but perhaps the papacy is forced out of Rome somehow and is given land in SA by Spain/Portugal?

Perhaps the Pope is killed in the 1527 sack and his successor moves to the new world for safety? It still seems unlikely given how slow communication will be.

Alternatively, the Pope is forced out of Italy in the Risorgmento with France being more hostile to the Papacy for whatever reason and he flees to Latin America
 
Perhaps, one of the major colonies decided that their mother country Spain or Portugal 'lost' their way and being Uncatholic, they declared wars of independence and earned it as the early Catholic theocracy in Americas.

Although admittedly, Latin American colonial history isn't my strong suit.
 
I remember one alt history I once saw where the Papacy fled to south America and somehow united all of Latin America... Clearly ASB but it was certainly and interesting take. It also featured (somewhat contradictory) the revival of Aztec and Incan tradition with machine-gun wielding Jaguar warriors.
 
The colonization made in Latin america made this close to impossible, unless some european colonizer purposely decides to build a theocracy in one of their colonies.

The objective of the colonization was basically to take over the land and reach the hightest profitability, this does not change from canada to Paraguay, but in Latin America that means one simple process that is repeated in every single country with just minor changes based on climate and terrain: Monoculture (One main product, grain or cattle in argentina, coffe or cattle in Brazil, sugar cane in Suriname, etc), slavery, great proprierty and only urbanizations close to the coast, or to put it simply, the plantation system. That meant that basically as soon the colonizers left who is going to take power are the oligarchs, it was like that in every single country, even in the ones that had a monarchy like Mexico and Brazil, the King was purely symbolic and who held the power were the oligarchs (maybe not with the first emperor, but as time passed the monarchy burned it's powers to the oligarchy). You cannot have a theocracy because their values are the opposite of a oligarchy.
 
This premise gave me a strange, perhaps ASB idea about a monastic jesuit state composed by the 30 Pueblos de las Missiones. As i said, it is a crazy idea
 
Liberation Theologians backed by Moscow take over *insert country here* is an idea I really like.
Would they accept regimes who are not in line with Moscow's philosophy ? There was always pragmatism but there are enough examples of left- Marxist alinged governments that Moscow abandond for heresy.
 
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I figure one way to get to this would be if the Pope claims a bit of the New World for the Church when signing the Treaty of Tordesillas, of which revenues flow directly to the Church and the Holy See, and run in the Pope's name by a newly created Archbishop. It could serve as the spiritual capital of the New World, a buffer between Spanish and Portuguese interests, and a way for the Church to take a direct interest in the conversion of the indigenous Americans. I would imagine a Papal colony like this to exist in what is more or less modern Venezuela.
 
Alternatively, the Pope is forced out of Italy in the Risorgmento with France being more hostile to the Papacy for whatever reason and he flees to Latin America

Something similar happened in @wilcoxchar's Union and Liberty, where a separate Pope set up shop in one of the successor states to Mexico after the formation of Italy.
 
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