The United States invasion of Mexico was a military conflict in the mid-21st century, part of the Resource Wars that preceded the Great War. It is mentioned in the Fallout Bible.
Prelude[]
Towards the turn of the mid-21st century at the height of the socioeconomic surge into nuclear energy following World War II, Earth's resources were beginning to dwindle while few artificial alternatives existed. In order to protect their own continued interests and access to petroleum, the United States of America carried out a years-long campaign of economic sanctions against their southern neighbor Mexico, the U.S.' primary supplier of crude oil, aiming to destabilize the nation's financial prospects.[Non-game 1]
Event[]
In 2051, an operation was carried out by the branches of the United States Armed Forces as they crossed the southern border and invaded sovereign Mexican territory, targeting their oil production facilities. Little to no details are known about the scope or targets of the operation. By its conclusion, the refineries were under military control to ensure that petroleum supplies would continue to flow across the border into the United States while done so at Mexico's expense.[Non-game 1]
Aftermath[]
The brazen upheaval as the U.S. invaded their southern neighbor shook international relations. American success eventually inspired the European Commonwealth to attempt to replicate the results a year later in 2052 by executing their own invasion of the Middle East in response to hiking oil prices, to significantly worse results with the breakout of the Euro-Middle Eastern War and the formal start of the Resource Wars.[Non-game 2] It also had the knock-on effect of scaring rival superpower China into attempting to stake their own claim on any potential sources of oil, of which would eventually lead to them coming into conflict with the U.S. themselves and sparking the Sino-American War.
Meanwhile, once U.S. economic control tightened around Mexico's oil industry, towards the end of the century by 2077, the American energy titan Poseidon Energy maintained control of oil refineries in the southern Mexican states including Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo via a subsidiary, Petró-Chico.[1][2][3][4]
Appearances[]
The United States invasion of Mexico is directly mentioned only in the Fallout Bible.
References[]
- ↑ The Courier: "What's 'Petro-Chico?'"
Raul Tejada: "You never heard of Petro-Chico, un Amigo de Poseidon Energy? Ah, of course not. They were an oil company in Mexico, back before the War."
(Raul Tejada's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "So what did you do?"
Raul Tejada: "I left Mexico City behind. I made my way out to the Gulf Coast, eventually I found an old Petro-Chico refinery nobody had claimed. I stayed there for a little while, and I thought a lot about my life. I thought about the guns I'd lived by and what they'd gotten me. I decided my guns hadn't gotten me anything, and it was time to give it up. I took off that old vaquero outfit, and put on a Petro-Chico jumpsuit. The name tag said 'Miguel,' so I started using the name myself. Eventually I made it to Arizona... but that's another story, boss."
(Raul Tejada's dialogue) - ↑ Insignia on Raul's Petro-Chico jumpsuit
- ↑ Sign for Petró-Chico
Non-game
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fallout Bible 0: "2051: Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border... at Mexico's expense."
- ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2052 April: The Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and Europe, dependent on oil imports from the Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The long drawn-out war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins."