If Mexico colonized Hawai'i, what would it be like?

If Mexico was the nation that conquered Hawai'i, instead of the US, what would the colony be like? Culture, sociopolitical structure, and so on.

Which regime/administration would be most able to do this?

And how long would it take for Hawai'i to be made a state?
 
If Mexico was the nation that conquered Hawai'i, instead of the US, what would the colony be like? Culture, sociopolitical structure, and so on.

Which regime/administration would be most able to do this?

And how long would it take for Hawai'i to be made a state?

I doubt it's possible, wasn't Britain hands on the islands, when they where called Sanwich Islands? and that France had the eyes on them too?

I doubt Mexico have a chance...
 
Did Mexico have a Navy that would be capable of this?

You'd need a stabler Mexico, which might affect American interest, but not British or French.
 
If Mexico was the nation that conquered Hawai'i, instead of the US, what would the colony be like? Culture, sociopolitical structure, and so on.

Which regime/administration would be most able to do this?

And how long would it take for Hawai'i to be made a state?

-- Due to the high degree of improbability, your if is a big one. It would take a series of PODs from early in Mexico's history to raise the rabble of butterflies necessary to bring this to pass. Not only was Mexico too politically unstable and militarily inferior to pull it off, Great Britain and France, two global powerhouses, had a military presence in the islands early in the 19th century and would head-off any Mexican attempt to conquer Hawai'i at the pass, as would the US.

-- No OTL regime/administration would be able to do it. That said, "most able" among the OTL leaders might possibly be José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, and only because he ruled the longest.

-- As it would take a series of PODs from early in Mexico's history to raise the rabble of butterflies necessary to put Mexico in the position of being able to take Hawai'i for itself, the only answer to the question of when would Hawai'i become a Mexican State is, "it depends on the POD".
 

katchen

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Not in the 19th Century. But consider an ATL in which a 17th Century Manila Galleon on it's way from Acapulco to Manila is blown off course by a storm and discovers Hawaii in the 17th Century. It will almost certainly lead to a Spanish conquest and colonization of Hawaii and Hawaii's incorporation in the Vice-Royalty of New Spain and thus, Mexico.
 
Not in the 19th Century. But consider an ATL in which a 17th Century Manila Galleon on it's way from Acapulco to Manila is blown off course by a storm and discovers Hawaii in the 17th Century. It will almost certainly lead to a Spanish conquest and colonization of Hawaii and Hawaii's incorporation in the Vice-Royalty of New Spain and thus, Mexico.

That archipelago may be REALLY usefull to spanish efforts in the Pacific back then, a link and ports for going to the Philipines... According to a mexican pal, the Viceroy of New Spain was the one overseeing those islands.
 
Could Mexico pull of the conquest of another South Pacific island instead, maybe? By that I mean an inhabited island with indigenous people, not Clipperton. Chile succeeded, maybe Mexico could too, provided it was an island without much interest to the European powers.
 
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