The Cactus Throne

"He was impressionable enough to understand what a strange, forbidding country he has come to rule, its immense barrens, where nothing but cactus would grow, its silent, enigmatic Indian masses under their sombreros and serapes, its stained and crumbling cathedrals where the Aztec gods had not been entirely displaced by the Holy Trinity. its dust-blown plazas with the black buzzards lurching around like drunken undertakers". - The Cactus Throne by Richard O'Connor, pg 131

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There was more than a tinge of self-pity in his attitude when unalloyed rage might have been more appropriate. It was true enough that all his sponsors were backing away from him with more haste than dignity. It was also true that he should have expected nothing more or less. Perhaps it was just as well that he didn't know he was being called "Archdupe" Maximilian in London and Washington. Ibid. pg 219