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Guadalupe Victoria Blinked into the light above his head, it was Christmas eve 1827, 4 days earlier he had declared that all Spaniards must be expelled from Mexico, he wiped his mouth, he had passed out last night, fell on the hard floor of his residence, his head hurt. That was a mistake, a grave one, in fact Mexico was a mistake. He recalled Cortés' description of Tenochtitlán, an image became lodged in his conscious, the image of a temple whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe, so large that within the precincts, which are surrounded by very high wall, a town of some five hundred inhabitants could easily be built. All round inside this wall there are very elegant quarters with very large rooms and corridors where their priests live. There are as many as forty towers, all of which are so high that in the case of the largest there are fifty steps leading up to the main part of it and the most important of these towers is higher than that of the cathedral of Seville. Cortés saw such splendour, and destroyed it, that was where he went wrong, where the Spanish went wrong and where the country was going to go wrong, by rejecting the natives and their past the country was losing its strength, if the Mexicans, the Spanish and the natives combined into one culture, they would be strong, so, the peoples of Mexico must blend, must unite under a new church, a new language and a new vision of what Mexico is, and he Guadalupe Victoria would deliver this vision, from the steps of a new temple of Tenochtitlán as the Sun Emperor of Aztlan.

A new timeline in which Mexico will be changed beyond all recognition, as their epileptic president has a fit he never had and smashes his head against the floor.
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