Mexico

The seat of power in Mexico is held by the son of General Huertta, Ramirez Huertta. His repairing measures to the problems of the country are insufficient. The populations simmers in its anger and resentment against the prevailing government and a full scale revolt is expected. In fact a potential leader for the revolt already exists, and Huertta's assassins are already after one Frida Siqueiros, an independent and fearless woman, who has taken a public stand against the rule of Huertta. The populace loves Fida, but nobody knows if she can survive long enough to gather the people under her flag. Fortunately for Frieda, she has numerous supporters who have promised to protect her with their lives. These include women who have laid their lives on the line and act as confusers and doubles at public events.

The cultural life of Mexico has become badly degraded. However, on the Yucatan peninsula there lives a small colony of artists, many of them followers of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. This group, which is called Las Uvas, includes painters, poets as well as some developers of totally new forms of art, like cyber-knotwork and network-art.

In the year 2007 troops lead by general Huertta attacked Texas, their aim being to take over the area from USA. This war had horrible consequenses for the nature of the area as both sides used chemical as well as biological weapons. The flora and fauna of the area has been destroyed and those people who did not die as a result have moved elswhere. The war lasted until 2009, when Mexico finally conquered Texas by a surprise attack. The moment was carefully chosen, and actually a deciding role was held by a Mexican spy, John Smith, who held a high office in the US government. He fed false information to the government that led it to believe that no attack was expected for at least 24 hours. Mexico, however, attacked earlier and met a resistance that was not as prepared as it should have been. The agent John Smith was immediately executed at the USA side, but a rumor still goes around Mexico, that he managed to escape at the last moment and another man was shot in his place.

After media sent the "interrogation" of general Huerttas prisoners of war in a live broadcast, the populace of USA pressured the government so much that it was forced to retaliate by dropping an atomic bomb to Mexico. Four a-bombs were dropped on Mexico City. Almost 23 million people died and the city was totally destroyed leaving only an enormous crater. The nearby Texcoco-lake boiled dry. Mexico returned Texas to USA, but the US military command would regret the decision to bomb Mexico. The fallout was expected to spread only over Mexican area, but because of some small alterations that a hacker had made, there was a mistake in the calculations. Unexpected changes weather patterns spread the fallout far into the Texas area causing widespred rioting and panic. In the town of El Paso, at the border of Texas and New Mexico, there started a riot which caused 3000 deaths and the whole city burned down. This riot was started by a couple of extremist movements, who saw the fallout as intentionally planned and wanted to take revenge on all higher civil servants in the city. They started the arsons from the city hall, but they soon spread, and as the water resources of the city were scarce nothing could be done.

In the year 2025 the brother of general Huertta, Ricardo, took the seat of power in the country after his brother. This self acclaimed admirerer of Spain could not care less about the traditions of Mexican indians. He used the old temples as building material for new highways and started a forceful campaign to blend the indians into the rest of the population. This caused strong resistance in the populace, but Ricardo Huertta quickly finished the complaints by executions and other punishments. This oppression stopped finally in the year 2037, when a 15-year old indian, Gomez RIvera, succeeded in placing an explosive device under Huerttas chair. It blew in the middle of a live TV-broadcast from Huerttas home palace, where he intended to make public his new restrictions to the indians. The much feared tyrant died immediately. This succesfull assassination had the result of making Ricardos successor, his nephew Ramirez, to keep a lower profile and stopping the restrictions against indigenous populace to calm down the people. These days it has been found out that his power is weak, and the people wait for a suitable opportunity to get their own representative to the seat of power.