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WI Rafael de Riego doesn't rebel in 1820.

In 1820, the Spanish regiments stationed in Cadiz rebeled against absolutism, and initiated a rebelion that would force Ferdinand VII to accept a liberal constitution. But what if they hadn't rebeled, and this troops had been sent to the Americas to fight revolutionary movements in South America (as it was expected). Where would they have been sent? By then, Argentina*, Paraguay, Chile and Venezuela* were independent, and Uruguay was in Portuguese/Brazilian hands.

What effects, if any, would this troops have in Spanish American independence movements? Would the absence of this rebelion butterfly away Mexico's independence in 1820? For how long?
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