Iturbide's enemy-turned-ally, Vicente Guerrero, turned to enemy again when he supported Santa Anna's plan.

The two leaders met on 1 February 1823 to sign Santa Anna's plan which called for the reinstatement of congress, Iturbide's abdication and his exile.

Iturbide's assignment to the Oaxaca expedition coincided with a successful military coup in Spain against the monarchy of Ferdinand VII.

It served as the first capital of Costa Rica until 1823, when Republican leader Gregorio Jose Ramirez, moved the capital to the bigger city of San José, because Cartago wanted to unite the newly independent province of Costa Rica to the Iturbide's Mexican Empire while San Jose and Alajuela supported a Republican system.

However, Iturbide's idea was a Mexican monarchy with ties to King Ferdinand VII of Spain.

Following the fall of Iturbide's empire, the Mexican Congress disavowed both the Plan and the Treaty of Córdoba as the basis for government on April 8, 1823.

Although Iturbide's reign was short, it defined the political struggles before and after independence that Mexico would endure until the 20th century.

The two ends of Mexico's political spectrum – liberals that favored populist representative government and conservatives that favored a more dictatorial regime – would each gain the upper hand at various times in the decades after Iturbide's abdication.

Iturbide's army was joined by rebel forces from all over Mexico, and quickly gained control of Mexico.

Iturbide's supporters further convinced the viceroy that he was needed to vanquish the last remaining rebel leader.

Guerrero managed to deliver a number of serious reverses to Iturbide's troops.

These moves threatened to reduce Iturbide's influence in current and future governments.

Some call Iturbide's decision a coup and state that the public support for Itubide was orchestrated by him and his followers.

This crowd included Iturbide's old regiment from Celaya.

Iturbide's supporters filled the balconies overlooking the chamber.

Iturbide's coronation was held at the Mexico City Cathedral on 21 July 1822, with his wife, Ana María, crowned empress, in an elaborate ceremony.

While the Catholic clergy supported him, Iturbide's coronation both dashed republican hopes and broke with the Plan of Iguala and the Treaty of Córdoba.

Iturbide's self-appointment as emperor broke with Spanish and colonial practices, which caused discontent among the most traditional of Iturbide's supporters.

The strongest opposition to Iturbide's reign came from the congress.

Iturbide's economic policies were draining resources as well.

While Iturbide's reign lasted less than a year, it was the result of and further defined the struggle between republican and traditional ideals, not only in Mexico, but also in Europe.

If viewed in this light, historian Eric Van Young states that Iturbide's seizure of the crown " seems less cynical and idiosyncratic when it comes along at the end of the independence struggle.

Iturbide's empire was replaced with the First Republic which was soon usurped by Santa Anna's regime.

Agustín de Iturbide's army passed through Cuernavaca to fight Vicente Guerrero in 1820 and came through again in 1821, as the head of the Ejército Trigarante.

Iturbide's professed belief in these ideological mandates – that Mexico be made an independent constitutional monarchy, the abolition of class distinctions between Spaniards, creoles, mestizos and Indians, and that Catholicism be made the state religion – earned Guerrero's support, and, after marching into the capital on 27 September 1821, Iturbide was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico by Congress.

However, when Iturbide's policies supported the interests of Mexico's wealthy landowners through continued economic exploitation of the poor and working classes, Guerrero turned against him and came out in favor of a Republic with the Plan of Casa Mata.

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