AHC/PC: Communist Mexico?

Both a plausibility check and an AHC.

The plausibility check is, could Mexico have gone Communist after 1900? The challenge is for you to come up with a scenario having Mexico go Communist and remain so until at least 2012. Bonus points for those who can get it to go Communist before the Russian Revolution, and bonus points for those who make it be communist but aligned against the Soviet Union. (or in other words, against Stalinism)

A final bonus point is for those who can get said Communist Mexico to possess a small nuclear arsenal and yet manage to not get horribly crushed by the US.
 
Does it being a puppet/satellite of a communist America count?

And how doctrinate does it have to be? Would Zapata or Pancho Villa running things count? Because if so the only real problem is keeping the U.S. from crushing it. Which is, admittedly, an extraordinarily big problem.
 
Does it being a puppet/satellite of a communist America count?

And how doctrinate does it have to be? Would Zapata or Pancho Villa running things count? Because if so the only real problem is keeping the U.S. from crushing it. Which is, admittedly, an extraordinarily big problem.

Hmm....I'm going to go with no, because a Communist America throws a whole hell of a lot of things off into butterfly land.

As for the second pit, I could go with either of those. Figuring out how to keep the US off their backs is obviously important, but yeah that's viable in this challenge.
 
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