AHC: The Second Mexican Empire survives, what will be the consequences?

With a POD not as far back as 1850, how can the Second Empire survive? What will happen to the opposition including Juarez? Will Mexico be as stable as Chile, Spain or Panama?

This is because in the future I want to make an alternative story where the Second Mexican Empire survives.
 
It would be a frebch puppet, and would give France a base from which to influence the Americas.
 
It would be a frebch puppet, and would give France a base from which to influence the Americas.

I think actually the way for it to survive is to stop being a French puppet. It has to seem like a legitimate Mexican government to be accepted by the people and by the US.
 
I think actually the way for it to survive is to stop being a French puppet. It has to seem like a legitimate Mexican government to be accepted by the people and by the US.

Long term, probably. But since the Americans were backing the opposition in the short term the French are hugely important to the regime's survival.
 
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