MINI AAR
ORDAZ'S MEXICO
As you all know, I said that I was going to play Ordaz's path in TNO's Mexico. After playing his path, I can safely say that it is not worth it and has very little unique content. Without further ado, I will focus only on said unique content, as well about some details about his OTL life that are worthy of mention.
After the initial focus tree, we have to pick who will we court in our quest to get the olympic nomination, Ordaz (and Madrazo) open up as options when we pick the americans.
The dynamic for the pro-USA three is the same as the pro-jap one. We follow the tree, get scripted events, try to balance proposal strenght with the opinion of our chosen candidate, and so on.
A perfect Mexiconomy can be easily achieved by spamming the "build ejidos" decision, as this gives you +25 pp while only costing 5, and can be used again every 4 months (I recommend using the decision on very poor/useless areas, like Yucatán, Southeast, or Southwest, as it also causes a loss in farming efficiency).
Kabuki time, Ordaz edition, we will automatically go with the left side of the tree (previously posted in my last AAR).
As with Salinas, we will interact with the pp sinks that are in the decisions, but the way we get Ordaz instead of Madrazo is by reducing the unity of the pact. Above 80 gives us Madrazo, under 20 gives us Ordaz.
After Kabuki, we get Ordaz, and Salinas has his influence over the party greatly reduced.
IRL, both Ordaz and Mateos were good friends, which is examplified by the tone of the events. Very close and personal, specially when compared to the event where we pick Salinas.
Monkeyface here is a strike-buster and american ally, almost at OTL levels, might I say. His presidency will revolve around making Mexico more secure for the PRI and expanding the DFS (mexican FBI).
After having 80 in every category of the El Tapado GUI (the post-Kabuki tree is the exact same for all three paths, so I won't include it again), we will get these two events, which talk about how everyone loves the candidate that we chose, and will make things far easier going forward.
Finally, we have our man, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. He was born as lower-middle class kid from Puebla, in central Mexico, his father being part of the pre-revolutionary mexican goverment in his local town. Due to this, he was a rather dark horse candidate, but also one that had experience in all the levels of mexican governance, climbing the ladder from local bureaucrat, to deputy from the state of Puebla, to senator for that same state, to Secretary of the Interior under Mateos, to finally President of Mexico from 1964 until 1970, election that he won with 90% of the vote. OTL, he commited the
Tlatelolco Massacre, which was the goverment's response to the protests of 68, tl;dr he used lethal force aganist commie and hippie students, causing the deaths of around 300 hundred of them. Such event will also make its appearance whenever Mexico gets full content (soon+2 weeks).
After Ordaz's inaguration, we get this focus tree, which will last for around one year, and deals with oil, prepartion for the Olympics, and relationship with the americans.
Ordaz is a deeply authoritarian man, who desires to have almost total control over the mexican state and to ensure the ssupremacy of the PRI at all costs, and is willing to use blackmail and the goverment's security forces to achieve that.
One of the examples is this event, which allows us to send the army to put down the paesants.
Meanwhile, ex-president Mateos is not feeling so well, having been diagnosed with an untreatable cancer, just like OTL.
Madrazo has been sidelined, with one of Ordaz's yes men and ex-ally of his assuming his position of president of the PRI.
As Mateo's health worsens, so does the integrity of the mexican state, with many guerrillas and anti-goverment militias making their move.
Ordaz's desperation increases, as does his paranoia. Meanwhile, Luis Echeverría, Secretary of the Interior takes advantage of the situation to try and secure his candidacy (and, in OTL, his future presidency), sidelining the rival secretaries. He was also one of the intellectual authors of Tlatelolco.
Ordaz has a brief moment of sanity.
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