Conflict
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Combatant 1
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Combatant 2
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Results
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Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)
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Mexico
Mexican Insurgents European Volunteers
Mexican Ex-Royalists
Army of the Three Guarantees
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Spain
Spanish Royalists
Mexican Royalists
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Victory
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Long Expedition (1819)
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Mexico
Army of the Three Guarantees
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Texan Filibusters
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Victory
- Rebels defeated and captured
- James Long shot and killed in custody
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Texas–Indian Wars (1820–1875)
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Mexico
Spain
United States
Texas
Choctaw Republic
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Comanche and various Native American tribes
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Victory
- Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawa, Akokisa and Bidai
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Spanish Attempts to Reconquer Mexico (1821–1829)
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Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
Mexico
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Spain
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Victory
- Spain recognizes the independence of the United States of Mexico in 1829
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Comanche–Mexico Wars (1821–1870)
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Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
Mexico
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Comanche Kiowa
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Defeat
- Many successful raids by Comanche
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Apache–Mexico Wars (1821–1915) Part of the Mexican Indian Wars and the American Indian Wars
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Crown of Castile (1600s–1716)
Spain (1600s–1821)
Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
Mexico (after 1822)
United States
Confederate States (1861–1865)
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Apache
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Victory
- Apache gradually defeated in Mexico and the United States
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Yaqui Wars (1821–1929) Part of the Mexican Indian Wars
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Spain (1533–1821)
Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
Mexico (after 1822)
United States (1896–1918)
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Yaqui
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Victory
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Mexican Indian Wars (1821–1933)
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Crown of Castile (1519–1716) Tlaxcalans and other Native Indian allies of Spain (1519–1821)
Spain (1716–1823)
Mexico (1821–1933)
Guatemala (1823–1933)
Honduras (1823–1933)
El Salvador (1823–1933)
England (1638–1707)
United Kingdom (1707–1862)
British Honduras (1862–1933)
Republic of Texas (1836–1846)
California Republic (1846)
United States (1850–1933)
Confederate States (1861–1865)
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Various Native Mexicans
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Victory
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Casa Mata Plan Revolution (1822–1823)
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Republicans
United Kingdom
Gran Colombia
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Imperialists
Spain
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Republican Victory
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Rebellion of Oaxaca (1823)
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Mexican Provisional Government
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Oaxaca
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Provisional Government Victory
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Rebellion of Guadalajara (1823)
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Mexican Provisional Government
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Jalisco
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Provisional Government Victory
- Constitution of Colima as Territory of the Nation
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Rebellion of Puebla (1823)
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Mexican Provisional Government
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Puebla
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Provisional Government Victory
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Revolt of Querétaro (1823)
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Mexican Provisional Government
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Querétaro
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Provisional Government Victory
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Fredonian Rebellion (1826–1827)
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Mexico Comanche tribes (peace treaty)
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Texan Rebels Comanche tribes (initial plotting support)
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Victory
- Edwards Rebels defeated
- Comanches convinced to back down and peace treaty established
- Mexican amnesty for rebels except the Edwards brothers, Martin Parmer, and Adolphus Sterne
- A larger Mexican garrison established in Nacogdoches
- Law restricting immigration into Texas
- The Edwards flee to the United States (returning later for the Texas Revolution)
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Conservative Coup (1829–1831)
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Conservatives
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Liberals
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Conservative Victory
- Anastasio Bustamante and Conservatives oust liberal president Vicente Guerrero in 1829
- Capture and execution of Guerrero, defeat of Guerrero's forces
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Zacatecas Rebellion (1835)
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Centralists
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Zacatecan Rebels
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Centralist Victory
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Texas Revolution (1835–1836)
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Mexico
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Texas
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Defeat
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First Franco–Mexican War (1838–1839) also known as the Pastry War
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Mexico
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France
United Kingdom
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Defeat
- Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
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Rebellion of the Republic of the Rio Grande (1840)
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Mexico
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Republic of the Rio Grande
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Victory
- Dissolution of the Republic of Rio Grande
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Mier Expedition (1842–1843)
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Mexico
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Texas
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Victory
- Texan soldiers were forced to surrender
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Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
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Mexico
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United States
California
Texas
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Defeat
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- United States took ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado
- Mexican recognition of Texas (and the Mexican Cession) as U.S. territory; End of conflict between Mexico and Texas
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Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
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Mexico
Yucatán
Guatemala
United Kingdom
British Honduras
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Maya
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Victory
- Republic of Yucatán rejoins the United Mexican States in 1848
- Mayas achieve an independent state from 1847–1883
- Mexico recaptures Yucatán
- Conflict between the Mexicans and the Mayans continued until 1933
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Expedition of William Walker to Baja California and Sonora (1853)
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Mexico
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Republic of Sonora
Republic of Baja California
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Victory
- Wiliam Walker trial in San Diego
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Revolution of Ayutla (1854–1855)
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Liberals
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Conservatives
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Liberal Victory
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Reform War (1857–1861)
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Liberals
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Conservatives
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Liberal Victory
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Cortina Troubles (1859–1861)
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Mexico
United States
Confederate States
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Cortinista Militia
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Victory
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Second Franco–Mexican War (1861–1867)
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Mexico
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French Empire
Mexican Empire
Austrian Empire
Belgium
Spain
United Kingdom
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries
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Victory
- Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire
- French withdrawal
- Execution of Emperor Maximilian I, Miguel Miramon, and Tomas Mejia
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Victorio's War (1879–1881)
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United States
Mexico
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Apache
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Victory
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Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)
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El Salvador
Mexico
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
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Guatemala
Honduras
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Victory
- Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
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Garza Revolution (1891–1893)
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Mexico
United States
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Garzistas
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Victory
- Garza Revolution defeated
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Mexican annexation of Clipperton Island (1897)
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Mexico
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France
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Victory
- Mexican annexation, colony established
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Second Totoposte War (1903)
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El Salvador
Mexico
Guatemalan Exiles
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Guatemala
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Stalemate
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Third Totoposte War (1906)
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El Salvador
Mexico
Guatemalan Exiles
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Guatemala
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Stalemate
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Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
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Counter-Revolutionaries
Mexico
United States (1910–1913)
Germany (1913–1917)
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Revolutionaries
United States (1913–1918)
United Kingdom (1916–1918)
Germany (1917)
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Revolutionary Victory
- Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta ousted from power and exiled
- Mexican Constitution of 1917 enacted
- Defeat of rebellious Villa and Zapata by their Constitutionalists pairs
- Political assassination of presidents and revolutionary leaders
- Founding of the National Revolutionary Party
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Border War (1910–1919)
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Mexico
Germany
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United States
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Defeat
- Seditionist insurgency suppressed
- Permanent border wall established
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Magonista Rebellion (1911)
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Mexico
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Liberal Party of Mexico
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Victory
- Failure of the libertarian insurrection
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Cristero War (1926–1929)
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Mexican Government
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Cristeros National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty Knights of Columbus
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Government Ceasefire
- The Mexican Government makes peace agreement with Cristeros, assisted by the United States through U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow, in order to end violence
- Recognition of certain rights and the Catholic Church reopens in Mexico by 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil, although some anti-clerical government laws remained in place until 1992, when the Mexican government amended the constitution by granting all religious groups legal status, conceding them limited property rights and lifting restrictions on the number of priests in the country
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Escobar Rebellion (1929)
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Mexican Government
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Escobar Rebels
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Government Victory
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World War II (1942–1945)
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United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
India
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
Panama
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Chile
Bolivia
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Venezuela
Uruguay
Argentina
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Germany
Japan
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
Finland
Thailand
Manchukuo
Mengjiang
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Victory
- Collapse of the Third Reich
- Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
- Creation of the United Nations
- Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
- Beginning of the Cold War
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Mexico–Guatemala Conflict (1958–1959)
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Mexico
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Guatemala
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Ceasefire
- Mexican retaliation halted by newly elected president Adolfo López Mateos
- Diplomatic relations between the two nations are frozen for several months
- South American mediation helps to prevent escalation
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Dirty War (1968–1982)
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Mexico
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Left-wing groups:
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Victory
- Continued rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
- Most leftist guerrilla groups disbanded
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Zapatista Uprising (1994)
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Mexico
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EZLN
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Victory
- Uprising crushed by the government
- San Andrés Accords, granting some autonomy to the indigenous peoples
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Mexican Drug War (2006–present)
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Mexico
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Mexican Drug Cartels Other Latin American DTOs
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Ongoing
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