Baez annexes Santo Domingo to New Grenada/Colombia

Mexican President Buenaventura Baez is known for repeatedly trying to get his country annexed to another power, most notably to Spain and the United States, but also to France.

OTL the Dominican Republic tried to join Gran Colombia. What if Baez had tried to get his country absorbed by New Grenada?
 

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New Grenada? So probably late 1840s early 1850s POD based on his presidency. At the time he was still a liberal who respected human rights, so it would be a decent sell to the liberal clique and the Rojo ranchers who wanted a state protector.


It could be a stable union via the same language and similar institutions, while shifting debt to the Colombian state. It does screw over his position ironically. The people benefiting the most are the Cibao merchants who now get a stronger currency to use that cant be as easily manipulated via mass printing. As well as being an important transit point for investors going south to the main land.

The Cibao wouldn't like the ultra centralism, so that might push for federalism earlier. More importantly, the political stability and more migration to the island would spur economic development.

Unfortunately this would really upset the Empire of Haiti under Faustin. So a Colombian Haitian war is in the cards. Dont know how that would impact the politics in Colombia.
 
New Grenada? So probably late 1840s early 1850s POD based on his presidency.

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Unfortunately this would really upset the Empire of Haiti under Faustin. So a Colombian Haitian war is in the cards. Dont know how that would impact the politics in Colombia.

Well, if one wants to turn it into a Colombia-wank, VZ's Federal War is also around the same time period. Note that at this time generally the liberals are federalists and the conservatives are centalists in both Colombia (then New Granada) and Venezuela; the trick here is to find a way to have federalist conservatives as well as liberals, in which case it would be easy to accommodate the Dominicans. Haiti would have to be careful in this case if they do not want to fight people with recent war experience.
 
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