WI: Mexico takes all of former New Spain with it into independence.

Is there any way for Mexico to take Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines with it into independence as the Empire of Mexico? And what would the result be?
 
The most likely result would be a short-lived claim as Mexico wouldn't have the fleet and the troops to enforce it.
 
Is there any way for Mexico to take Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines with it into independence as the Empire of Mexico? And what would the result be?

A Bourbon Mexico may do it.
Possibly with Mexico as Spain-in-exile. Either in exile from the Napoleonic invaders or as an early Carlist* or Constitutionalist stronghold.
 

mowque

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The most likely result would be a short-lived claim as Mexico wouldn't have the fleet and the troops to enforce it.

Yeah. The Phillipines are the insane one. They are on the other side of the planet, and chock full of people who aren't keen on being colonized.
 
Considering how well it went with the northern territories, it's going to be hard to enforce the claims, with Cuba and the Caribbean going independent if given along with the independence. Unless Mexico gets a stable government instead of the musical chairs it had, or goes Dominion (though, that's a very dim possibility).
 
Considering how well it went with the northern territories, it's going to be hard to enforce the claims, with Cuba and the Caribbean going independent if given along with the independence. Unless Mexico gets a stable government instead of the musical chairs it had, or goes Dominion (though, that's a very dim possibility).

What about the Bourbon-in-exile government that Miguelrj was suggesting?

Obviously Mexico would have to be more stable than OTL, no country could hang on to overseas territories with that much instability no matter how it got them.
 
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