AHC: Fascist Mexico

katchen

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Anti-clerical, collectivizing agriculture under the Ejijo Plan, protected monopolies or duopolies. Nationalistic fervor. Are we sure that Mexico's Obregon Regime was not fascist or at least closer to fascism than Franco's Spain? Maybe the question should be reframed as "What mroe would Francisco Obregon had have to have done to qualify Mexico as a fascist countryin 1918?
 
Anti-clerical, collectivizing agriculture under the Ejijo Plan, protected monopolies or duopolies. Nationalistic fervor. Are we sure that Mexico's Obregon Regime was not fascist or at least closer to fascism than Franco's Spain? Maybe the question should be reframed as "What mroe would Francisco Obregon had have to have done to qualify Mexico as a fascist countryin 1918?

Álvaro Obregón, not Francisco Obregón.
 
Except that OTL's Mexico was clearly on the left on a a lot of important issues so no one thought of it as fascist.

The fact is that a lot of right wing and left wing semi-democracies/paternal autocracies have an awful lot in common. They both rejected classical liberal, free market democracies, and identified similar problems with it. It's just that each came to different "solutions", and had different foreign policy preferences.

Sometimes, this is splitting hairs. Peron could be called a fascist, but he is probably better seen as a "left wing fascist" since he is more a folk hero of the Argentine left, not the Argentine right.

Fascism, as a pheonomenon, is what you get in the modern era when the traditional conservative elites (landowners, nobility, etc.) are discredited. Fascism was simply a more "modern" version of the old social hierarchy.

In Mexico, the closest analogue to a fascist group would have been the old supporters of the Porfiriato. Perhaps in a world where Victoriano Huerta was victorious, we might see him align Mexico alongside Mussolini's corporatism. Of course, once Mussolini aligns himself against the US, he (or any other Mexican fascist) would distance himself from it.
 
José Vasconcelos winning the 1929 elections or go through with his Plan de Guaymas (which was to depose Calles and his fraudulent government; OTL, this never came to fruition, as Vasconcelos preferred exile rather than making Mexico go through another civil war). It's hard, but possible. His views overall were bordering quite close to Fascism, albeit not as xenophobic. It would be more like the Francoist dictatorship in Spain.

Another one would have been a more far-sighted Cristero movement winning the rebellion (OTL's was too short-sighted, and eventually got back-stabbed by those bolsheviks that were in the Mexican government). Said victory would have brought forth a Synarchist government in the near future.
 
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