Plan of Iguala

The Plan of Iguala, also known as Plan Trigarante was announced on February 24, 1821, during the Mexican War of Independence, Agustín de Iturbide, the later Emperor of Mexico, and the revolutionary Vicente Guerrero.

He stood under the motto Religión, Independencia y Unión (religion, independence and unity ).

Mexico at that time was still part of New Spain, that the Spanish colony that extended over parts of the United States today, and about today's Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Caribbean islands.

To end this state of colonial dependence, the plan for the unity of all social classes in Mexico called for, which should reach under the umbrella of a single religion, the Roman Catholic, the independence of the nation of Spain.

The independent Mexico should become a constitutional monarchy on the European model. Furthermore, it was in the contract work, the equality of all the inhabitants of the territory, irrespective of caste and ethnicity, committed.

The Plan de Iguala was on 24 August 1821 with the Treaty of Córdoba, which was concluded between Iturbide and Spanish Viceroy Juan O'Donojú in Córdoba (Veracruz ), ratified and largely put into practice.