When Mexico refused to pay its debts to European countries, FRANCE SET UP A NAVAL BLOCKADE, TOGETHER WITH SPAIN AND ENGLAND; THEY TOOK TROOPS TO THE MEXICAN PORT CITY OF VERACRUZ. Mexico was able to negotiate with Spain and England but not with France; France was interested in conquering Mexico.
By contrast, populist authoritarian regimes "are mobilizational regimes in which a strong, charismatic, manipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower-class groups". Examples include Argentina under Perón, Egypt under Nasser and Venezuela under Chávez and Maduro
As rebels that should remember who brought them there, there OUR colonies not some individual state, tax there things they WILL come crawling back soon...