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Mexican President Venustiano Carranza ordered a discrete assessment to find out if the plan was feasible to implement; it wasn't due to the economic and political situation at the time (i.e: the United States was the only country with a sizable arms industry in the Americas, and the sea lanes were closed at the time so Germany couldn't provide any troops, arms or equipment).

Before President Carranza would respond, the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted and its contents published in the American media, prompting president Wilson to declare war on Germany on April 6, 1917. President Carranza formally declined the proposal on April 18, 1917.

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