Mexico’s war of independence started out as a coup and ended—thanks to a charismatic priest—with the creation of a nation. On August 25, 1810, Francisco Xavier Venegas de Saavedra, New Spain’s recently appointed viceroy, disembarked at Veracruz to assume the rule of Spain’s largest possession. Discontent had been simmering in the Americas since 1808, when …
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