Mexican economic miracle

No Mexican Revolution and butterfly the PRI away.

In 1911 in the Battle of Ciudad Juarez revolutionary leader Madero defeated the government led by dictator Porfirio Diaz:

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_de_Ciudad_Juárez

In a single battle the government was brought to heels. They offered Madero half the country, Madero almost accepted but his lieutenants would have none of it and demanded total capitulation, which the government actually agreed to.

The problem is, Madero's side had traitors and this sudden collapse of the government created huge power vacuum filled by said traitors. All of this led to a years long (more than 10 years I think) period of senseless war where everyone is vying for power. All of this ended up in the 70+ years long rule of the ridiculously corrupt dictatorial PRI party.

So as a POD lets have Madero accept Diaz's deal where he is given half the country under Diaz's presidency. This allows Madero to freely run for president in a short time and win. An orderly transfer of power takes place.

Madero has now the legitimacy of being both the revolutionary leader and Diaz's official successor, which also means all the infrastructure and experience of the Diaz government remains in place rather than being kicked out. Now Madero is in a way stronger position than OTL, while his lieutenants are way weaker. The Mexican revolution ends quickly in 1 battle rather than years of senseless country ravaging war.

Diaz's government was very (with huge human right abuses of course) progress and industrialization oriented. Without said government being completely obliterated in one stroke, those influences remain, while also adopting Madero's democratic and human rights approach.

Mexico transitions from a brutal dictatorship into a liberal democracy.

Fast forward to WWII, OTL Mexico was one of the countries that benefitted the most from WWII. Mexico obtains insane reserves of wealth by selling materials to the Wallies, also Mexican workers were employed by the US in the bracero program to free manpower for the military. While Europe had to be rebuilt after the war and the US sent its men to die, Mexico benefitted immensely and just sent a token force. Countries have become powers for less. The problem? It was the incredibly corrupt PRI that got all that money.

In this timeline however the PRI doesnt exists, Mexico is a maturing liberal democracy, more industrialized and at least about a decade ahead of OTL Mexico due avoiding the quagmire that was the mexican revolution. These mountains of wealth are used way better in an already way richer Mexico and allows Mexico to grow into an industrialized power.

2018 Mexico is an economic power like Japan.
 
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This is probably a bit extreme, but could no Bretton Woods system do it? If the USA decides not to take a 'world leadership' role after WW2, they would likely be more interested in their closest markets. Bad for Western Europe and the Far East, but good for Mexico, though they would still suffer a great deal of US political interference.
 
Why would USA simply give up on world leadership? This would only happen if the USA didn't entered WW2. In which scenario, it is hard to predict what would happen to the USA. Note that one of the reasons why Mexico is so back in development is becuase the USA does not want a strong country at their southern border. But in a TL where the US doesn't enter WW2 and the USSR still beats Germany and Japan, meaning a way stronger and bigger Soviet block, its possible the USA dedicates itself to buff up, industrialize and boost the shit out of all of Latin America to at least Canada level to pretty much turn the continent into a fortress now that the Soviets own all of Europe (with the exception of the UK), Asia and possibly even Africa.

Also, forgot to mention that the USSR would never be able to invade Japan due to its navy (which would be necessary to have a red Soviet Japanese Empire), so the situation would not be THAT desperate and the US might instead invest on buffing up Japan rather than LA (way closer to Soviet territory and much more advanced than LA), still it is perhaps believable that they will at least attempt to buff up Mexico to ensure it has its Southern and Western borders surrounded by strong allies to counter the Soviets should a war ever happen.

Essentially, this is a scenario where all the resources spent in WW2 and the Marshall Plan are instead spent in buffing allies, in which Mexico is also a huge receiver. As I stated before though, the big problem is that the PRI is in power, though maybe with many more additional resources (as I said, even in OTL Mexico benefitted tremendously from WW2) Mexico will be buffed up enough so that not even the PRI can fuck it up. Or maybe the US invades or coups the PRI and installs a government that can turn Mexico into a first world country.
 
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