HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Agustín De Iturbide, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Anastasio Bustamante

• School: McGill University
• Department: Hispanic Studies
• Course: HISP 226
• Professor: Lopez- P

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Lecture 13 - 19th century latin america: centralists and federalists. When mexico achieved independence, it had proclaimed itself as an empire (under agustin de. His regime collapsed because there was a congress, iturbide didn"t really submit to its dictates. To avoid civil war, he abdicated and exiled to europe. The new congress (1823) was republican, but divided on how to proceed. [iturbide the emperor only really abdicated because of a military coup (plan). The plan that god rid of iturbide was the. Plan of casa mata; they really don"t recognize his abdication - his reign was illegitimate according to them] Draft a new political agenda embodied in the foundational laws of a constitution. The first thing that the rebels of the plan of casa mata do is form a constituent congress. There are no official political parties, but they realize that there are 2 main tendencies: centralists and federalists.