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Worldwar 1975 South-America

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Worldwar - Change of the Balance - 1975


It is the year 1975, which marks the 32nd year of the invasion of Earth by the species simply known as 'The Race'. The world since the invasion has changed vastly. New nations were formed, borders redrawn and new alliances formed.

Latin-America during the Terran-Race war was not as devastated as it was for example North America. Here the military and industrial capabilites where much smaller and thus the Race was able to defeat the militaries of the various nations fast and without pretty much any noteable losses.

But very soon the continent proofed to be quite difficult to occupy. Many Tosevite soldiers either hid in the amazon jungle or in the Andes. In the Amazon the Race could not really use their ground-vehicles as roads where either non-existant or in too bad shape to be used by their land-cruisers. So here the Race had mostly to rely on helicopters and their number was too small to oversee the entire area. And in the Andes the climate and great heights were another factor that made use of helicopters very difficult. But despite these facts that the Race was at a certain disadvantage here, humans were not really able to resist in any meaningfull ways or even reconquer some parts of their continent.

It was only with the arrival of the interdimensional visitor that supplied the hidden military units and resistance fighters. But even despite this, the Race here was able to hold to quite a lot of territory here, which with the peace-treaty of the seas they were allowed to keep.

Over the next few decades the political landscape of the continent would change drastically.

The island nations in the Caribean would band together and form the Federación del Caribe, while the Spanish-speaking nations, with the exception of the Mexico would form the Unión Latino-americana.



Unión Latino-americana


The Unión Latino-americana is a powerfull, nuclear-armed nation and it is leaning towards a more hostile position against the Race. Under the leadership of Argentine and Venezuelan politicians the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin-America were lead / forced / encouraged during the 60s into this new super-state. Especially the leadership of Venezuela is pretty hostile against the Race, as their nation was split into two parts and now they relied on Columbian railway and roads to access their Souther parts. But also Bolivia is pretty upset because with the Race gaining the territory at their broder, the chance to regain 'their' coastline, which they lost in the Guerra del Pacífico, is nearly impossible.

Until now, the year 1975 the nation has become a fascist-like police state. Censoring of the press is common-place, intellectuals and other 'suspicious subjects' are under constant surveillance. But to prevent uprisings 'El Comandante' Augusto Pinochet has used exterior 'threats' as a mean to distract the people from the dire social circumstances, like the constant bickering with the United Kingdom about the Malvinas, the competition with the US-allie of Brasil, the treason of their Latino-brothers in Mexico by joining forces with the US-imperialists, the fact that the Panama canal is still in possession of the US, but mainly by pointing out at the threat of the Race and the land they occupy. The nation has gained quite a lot of help by emmigrated nazi scientists, which enabled them to build a formidable army.

Though this had lead to a weird situation now in this country. Because of the constant threat of the secret police and disappearing into a prison some secret place, the constant shortages of many goods, as the industry focuses mainly on the military, and the oppression of any kind of opposition, large numbers of people try to flee, at first mainly into Mexico, but in the recent years, the military has heavily fortified the area along this border, which some allready call 'cortina de hierro', because of the barbed wire that is now all along the border. And since it has become nearly impossible to flee into Mexico, many people have started to flee and plead for asylum in the Race territories. Surprisingly only a small number of people tried to flee over the territory of Brasil yet.

Many would plead the Race officials to let them use their territory as a way station and let them emigrate into Mexico or the Caribean Federation. But recently a growing number of humans have also decided to stay within the Race territories. For many it was a better life than anything they had ever experienced and so in the recent years, approximately one third of human refugees had decided to stay within the Race territory. The Race was quite happy at first as quite a number of Tosevites started to settle in their cities, yet they had a huge problem with encouraging them to use the proper language at all times, which of course was the Race language. Also schooling the younger Tosevites was quite a problem, as the refugees quickly realized that the Race would try to brainwash their children into proper members of the Race like teaching them the sole 'true' believe, the Emperor-worshipping, a fact they have not grasped when they decided to settle here. The refugees responded with founding private school, though most would not even be open for six months. The next step was home-schooling, which the Race is pretty much unable to controll.

While the Race leadership was at first happy to see many new Tosevite settlers in their territory, as it gave them hope that there was still a chance of somehow incoporating this planet into the Empire, there was now fear that these new settlers could only bring unrest and instability. They even considered to relocate these Spanish speaking refugees into other parts of the world the Race occupies, regions where the locals would not Speak a single word Spanish, which would make them force to use the Race language, if they wanted to communicate in any meaningfull way with other people.

This constant crisis caused a certain strain on the Unión Latino-americana, as it had to use quite a lot of ressources to guard all their borders to prevent their citizens from fleeing. Also recent riots as well as demonstrations because of the shortages and the suppression of any kind of non-patriotic political expression caused more and more tensions in the Unión Latino-americana.


Brasil

The republic of Brasil is a close ally of the US and are leaning towards a more neutral relationship with the Race, despite the fact that they have lost nearly one quarter of their territory, allthough one must say that there is still quite a lot of resentiments in the population because of this.

With the help of the US, Brasil mordernized its economy in the 1950s, building a whole new capital and many more cities all over the country, while streets, schools, new ports and much more infrastructure was built all over the place.

Brasil avoided the military dictatorship it had to endure in our world, and is now a stable democracy. It is a nuclear power as well as a space power, having access to the equator enabled them to build several space ports, with some of the lend to other nations.

The allegations by the Unión Latino-americana that the Brasilian TV station 'America Libre' is intended to undermine their state, is described by the Brasilian government as groundless and states the this TV station is intended for the Spanish speaking minorities within Brasil and they can't help that the radio waves are sent into their territory as well.


French Guyana

The department of French Guyana is the pride of the French Republic, as it houses 500 square kilometers of infrastructure of their space programm, as well as a large number of platoons of the Legion Etrangere for its protection.


Race Territories

The territories in Latin-America are not as heavily settled as for example like in the 'Settlement Zone 5' in North America, or the 'Settlement Zones 2 and 3' in Africa. Within the territories surounded by the Unión Latino-americana the Race has stationed a larger number of soldiers and military equipment compared to for example the Sahara desert, as the Race suspects that a conflict with this nation in this century is the most likely.

Luckily for the Race here all their territories have a connection to the sea and thus are able to use their 'wet' fleet (by now allready one third of their ships are built in Race docks, although large numbers are still bought from the US, Germany, China and Korea), as well as building production sites for hydrogen, using large nuclear fusion power stations (a technology that all major Tosevite super-powers are very soon obtaining as well, according to some Race scientists, some say even before the turn of the century in the local calender, though the Fleetlord of the colonization fleet refuses to believe this prognosis).

While the replacement of the local flora and fauna with Home plants and animals was quite successfull in the settlement zones in North and Central-America, in South-America they were not that successfull, for various reasons. In the Andes the rough and colder climate made it nearly impossble for Home-plantlife to grow, while in the costal areas the humidity is too high. Both plant-life and animals did not flourish as the Race expected them to.

The only exception where the Race did not even try to replace the local biosphere was in the west of settlement zone 7. The Race pretty quick realized how vital this forest was for the water cycle and the stability for the biosphere of the planet as a whole (the Race wants to solidify their stance on the planet for now, build their colonies and establish themselves on the planet. It is estimated that with the accelerated process will take less than 200 local years, after that they can plan maybe start a plan to secretely convert the biosphere of the planet to a more Home-like one) and the rich biodiversity with many plants that have a high potential for pharmaceutical use. Very soon the Race started developing medications against many different Tosevite diseases out of the various plants they found in the Amazon together with their own much higher advanced medical diagnostics, like Malaria, Dengue-fever, Yellow-fever or Leprosy.

This was an attempt to make the Tosevites dependant on such medication, as they at first assumed they would be the sole producers of such medication, and the Race could gain the Tosevite's trust and maybe incoporate parts of world where the locals would demand to be part of the Race empire, because they were so thankfull for the treatment, which was pretty naive idea by the Race. The various people around the world were thankfull for the various new medications the Race sold them, but not thankfull enough to demand annexation by the Race. Also, the various Tosevite not-empires were quick to develop generica of the various medications, thus rendering this plan useless, at least in Latin-America. In other parts of the world, like Africa, they were a bit more successfull.

The Race megalopolises in the Settlement Zone 7 are situated in the East / South-East, in the more Savanna-like areas, where also plant-life and animals from home managed to grow much better than in the rest of the continent. The cities are vast, far-stretched, and, at least to human eyes, not really that impressive, at least at first. Barely any scy-scrapers or other huge monumental buildings, only occasional monuments of former conquerers and past Emperors. Only on second sight the cities appear highly advanced and super efficient, with wasting no drop of water and no watt of energy.

Like all cities built by the Race, they have the typical chessboard pattern, of house-blocks of roughly the same size and streets in 90 degree angles in between. Energy, as in all Race cities, are either produced by solar power, for more remote settlements, or fusion, for the large metropolises. Traffic is mostly public transportations like tramways, elevated monorails,subways or taxis, private cars in Race cities are nearly non-existant. The cities are connected by highly advanced maglev trains and fast, making highways for cars pretty much non-existant in Race territories. Only a few have been built, as connections with the Tosevite traffic networks.

Though Fleetlord Atvar managed to convince Fleetlord Refet to build one additional aspect into their new cities: Public air-raid shelter.

As nobody expected the local people to resist at all, let alone have the capability to bomb Race cities, maybe even with nuclear bombs, they had no concept of air-raid shelters in their planned cities. The Race, in a rare moment in their society, was quick to react and built a large and surprisingly sophisticated network of large bunkers beneath their cities, with enough room to shelter 300 percent of their current population. Many members of the Race just hiss at the thought of such a waste of ressources of an infrastructure that will probably never be used. How likely will it be that those primitive Tosevites would ever dare to attack the Race? After all the Race will always prevail.
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