On January 13, Deniken was given devastating news and this immediately grounded to a halt to any new guerilla operations against the Red Army. On January 5, Empress Anastasia was visiting the indigenous people in Yucatán to raise morale and war bonds when a mosquito bite her, at first it was nothing and she didn't care until two days later when she fainted after severe fever and that's when her staff realized she had yellow fever and tried desperately to revive her, it was not enough and on the 9th she fell into a coma, until finally on the 12, Empress Anastasia passed away.
The Emperor and nation were devastated, Anastasia was more popular than the last Empress because of harrowing journey through multiple revolutions and she was a friend to the people by visiting military hospitals and the soldiers. On 15 a massive funeral procession with gun salutes and mourning, even in South Africa and the Raj people were mourning. After the funeral, Emperor Emiliano began focusing more on the war than finding a new wife, to distract himself from his loss, he ordered ships carrying ammunition to be smuggled through Vladivostok to keep helping the New White Army to continue supporting his former brother in law, Tsarevich Alexei. While in Mexico he ordered the construction of new tanks to be hurried to help break the stalemate in Spain and ordered the construction of the
Anastasia class Battleship to finally wipe the IJN off the face of the Earth.
All over the world every leader gave their condolences to the Emperor for the loss of his wife, even Chile because even though their relationship was cold they were still close, except for one nation in South America: Argentina.
Argentina was under the control of President or dictator Juan Peron, who came to prominence after teaming up with his mentor Pedro Pablo Ramírez, also the founder of the fascist Guardia Nacional, to overthrow the President Roberto Maria Ortiz and Ramírez became de facto dictator himself, however Peron was more ambitious then he ever realized and with Peron having control of the army, he began to fear him. In September 12, 1939, just as the world had exploded again into another World War, Ramírez ordered Person's arrest, however the soldiers sent to arrest Peron instead refused and told Peron of Ramirez's plan. Peron acted quickly and in a coup he placed Ramírez himself under arrest and exiled him to the United States. Throughout the next year until December 10, 1940 he used his other mentor, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, as another a puppet President until on December 10, 1940 he removed Farrell from power and made himself de facto dictator of Argentina.

Pedro Pablo Ramírez

His Excellency, General Juan Peron
With himself in power he began modeling Argentina after fascist Sardinia and France and this immediately began tearing relations with Mexico, who was at war with both Sardinia and France. Because of that Argentina issued embargoes and tariffs on Mexico and even more disturbing; began buying from France and The Union of Britain multiple tanks, planes, and artillery. Spies from Mexico could already see were this was going and even more damning was what Peron said on the death of the Emperatriz: "Now all were need is that dotard in Chapultepec to drop dead and we can divide from that miserable corpse anything we want." Reports came back from Buenos Aires and made even worse when Peron ordered the closure and removal of all Mexican residents and the embassy.
Knowing were this was going and not wanting a Cam Rahn Bay like event happening again, Emperor Emiliano gave permission to generals to plan a Operation Z like plan to knock out as many Argentine ships as possible to remove any chance of Argentina attacking Mexican Guiana or God forbid the mainland herself, but before that, they had to force Argentina's hand first before attacking so to not make Mexico look like the agresor.
Meanwhile in Spain, Operation La Victoria with a army of 100,000 soldiers including Spanish, Irish, MEF, along with a few portuguese volunteers began on January 24 and it completely caught the French, who were majorily focused on Germany and the Italian peninsula to focus on Spain, completely by surprised and began pushing back the French army from Tereul to Zaragoza until the situation was finally stabilized by the combined Anglo French army and by the 6 of February the operation ended. Operation La Victoria was a failure because, even though the made numerous gains, that was not the operation's objective, the goal was to push France all the way back to Pyrenees not to Zaragoza. The operation's failure could be blamed on the lack of coordination between the three commanders in Spain: Pancho Villa, Michael Collins, and Francisco Franco for the most part, the three got along but they were very secretive on what were their objectives and were always avoidive when asked questions by the other. This lack of cooperation and coordination meant that during the operation when Spanish forces were under attack, the MEF would simply move forward and continue while it was the Irish who always made the most dangerous attacks.

Generals in the Spanish front: Franco, Villa, and Collins
Meanwhile in Germany two things were happening: a major build up of forces near the French occupied Alasce Lorraine line led the French to believe that a major offensive was going to happen there and began beefing up their forces and defenses, when in reality it was a diversion; the real offensive was to be in the Rhineland region and the plan was to use small infiltrating groups combined with tanks, bombers, and paratroopers to create as much chaos as possible and at the same time the infantry will push the French to Arnhem, Netherlands. Meanwhile the Kaiser now 83 was now under a regency by his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, and when the Crown Prince heard of the death of the Emperatriz in Mexico he sent a message to the Conservative Party in the Chamber of the Deputies of the possibility of a marriage between the Emperor of Mexico and his niece, Federica of Hanover, the daughter of Viktoria Louise also the granddaughter of Wilhelm II. The Conservatives immediately pounced and agreed to the proposal because it was always their dream for the Emperor to marry a Hohenzollern and secretly they hated Anastasia because of her being a Romanov and a Othordox, now this was their chance, until one week later on February 14 when King Micheal of Romania sent news that Ileana was still unmarried and brought up the Treaty of Bucharest and ask the Conservatives to honor the agreement. Now the Conservatives were at a impass with the Conservatives who backed the princess of Romania because of her being Catholic and saying it was Mexico's duty to abide by the Treaty being called again Rumanistas, while the Conservatives who backed the German princess because it meant that the Mexican Royal family could be part of the Hohenzollern family directly, being labeled Alemanistas. This creates a bitter split in the Conservative Party, while the Reformist Party were also being divided; the leading members, including Prime Minister Cárdenas supported the daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand Pius, Princess Urraca María, while there was a gigantic part of both the Reformist and Conservative Party members who supported the Bonaparte princess Marie Clotide Bonaparte, for the reasons to heal the rift between Mexico and France and also to undermine the King of France. These supporters became known as reconciliators because they want to reconcile relations between Mexico and France.

Crown Prince Regent, Wilhelm

Federica of Hanover

Ileana of Romania

King of The Two Sicilies, Ferdinand Pius

Marie Clotide Bonaparte