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 people would continue to be denied and exploited, without the right to decide. Laws, institutions and authorities, would now be designed so that the creoles and their greedy european partners could exploit natural resources, especially mining and oil, and the indigenous and mestizo masses that still could not find accommodation in the new society and had no real rights. The colonial system that was built over three centuries ceased functioning. 80% of "Mexicans" at the beginning of the 19th century had indigenous origin; but the laws, institutions, authorities and its civilization, not even remotely had the right to design the new nation that creoles wanted to create. Meanwhile the creoles—conservative—masons scottish pretended to form a european monarchy to leave chaos, —"Without remedy we are lost if Europe does not come soon in our aid"— wrote Lucas Alamán. The creole—liberal—york—masons, denied any european or indigenous heritage, and pretended to create an identical model of the northern neighbor, to design the future of this patria being formed.

The two creoles sides only agreed in one thing, the millenary civilization had no place in the new project, the creoles only disagreed in whether the model should be european or that of the United States.

Towards the mid-19th century, during the creoles struggles and their inability to govern, european powers headed by France, England and Spain decided in the London Convention to intervene in Mexico, not just to ensure payment of debt owed to them, for obligations acquired by the new and poorly administered nation; but to build a european retaining wall against the expansive and voracious United States, who at that time began building their power; and at that time could not help their "creole liberal" allies because they were in the "succession civil war". The interventionist troops landed at Veracruz and the liberal government negotiated with England and Spain through the Treaty of La Soledad, for the withdrawal of their troops. The Napoleon III France initiated the invasion with support and sympathy of the conservative creoles. The