'Zoot Suit' Riots
Fire the "'Zoot Suit' Riots" event in Hearts of Iron IV with the console command event mexico.32.
'Zoot Suit' Riots
Country event
Fire this event with the event command and the event ID mexico.32.
What happens
Hispanic youths wearing extravagent clothes - 'zoot suits' - have been the target of racialized riots in border cities in the South, stemming from sensationalized reporting over the death of a teenager in Los Angeles. Nine Mexican-American youths have been convicted for murder over the incident. Intelligence agents have compiled reports stating that the zoot suiters are in fact fascist agents, collaborating with ultra-Catholic Sinarquistas in Mexico in order to assist in a Japanese-German invasion of the Americas.
Player choices
When this event fires, 'Zoot Suit' Riots presents these options:
- That sounds rather unlikely. How much are we paying these agents?
- Arrest the zoot suiters anyway. The riots are a threat to our war effort.