#memex

I confess I found it very funny that you asked me about this considering your name (needcake!) @needcake

Well the cake war (1938-1939) also known as the first French intervention, you should know that after the independence of Mexico and our first failed empire the country was A DAMNED DISASTER, we had a lot of internal wars for power, only Santa Anna tried to give us stability but um well he failed miserably on the mission and the story does not end well at all for him -remembered forever as the ruler who lost Texas! and basically hated in the imaginative Mexican-.

The conservatives and liberals (two opposing factions that had different proposals on how to govern and organize the country) had been hitting each other for many years in something known as the reform wars, between their fights many things happened such as the attempt to reconquer from Spain and the independence of Texas! But after these two events we finally managed to get Spain to recognize us as an independent nation but we lost a part of our territory and we were in chaos and everyone noticed us because of Spain, which was basically the equivalent to put up us a giant poster that said "I AM WEAK, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GOVERNING SOMEONE TAKE CONTROL".

And France took it very seriously, it had already made economic blockades to other newly independent countries and basically Mexico for its resources & the debts that we acquired with them - our thousands of internal wars did not finance themselves! - made France say oh "why not?!" and he wanted to invaded us but he couldn't do it because yes, he needed a reason to do it and this is when the cakes happen.

I do not remember the name of the pastry chef but basically some French merchants complained to France for some damage they had suffered in Mexican territory, the case of a pastry chef became well known because he says that several members of the Mexican army entered at his bakery and ate all of his cakes without paying! and then his store was destroyed by the civil wars!

The French government asked Mexico - I will not say the Mexican government because as I told you it was a disaster - to pay for the cakes; France sincerely asked for a ridiculously expensive amount and Mexico refused to pay for the cakes, in fact we declared war on them.

It had a very fun start but I must say that things did not go well! We lost, due to the economic blockade our already unstable and bad economy sank even more! We had to pay France the cakes, an exaggerated amount of money and part more money for war "damages"! and he tied us with a commercial deal where we had to give France a lot of benefits that indirectly tied us and would later make possible the arrival of Maximilian of Habsburg / the beginning of the second Mexican empire but that is another story.

Mexico, who suffered a 7.1 earthquake yesterday, in the first days of september after months without having one: