Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian annexation was a military and diplomatic operation carried out by the United States of Mexico in 1893 in which the U.S.M. seized control of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
The annexation was touched off four months earlier when the native ruler of Hawaii sought to limit the growing control of the archipelago's agriculture by the Mexican corporation Kramer Associates. Diego Cortez y Catalán, the President of Kramer Associates, decided that the Hawaiian monarch represented a threat to his company's interests, and had him deposed in a coup and replaced with a more pliable monarch. However, Cortez soon decided that having a new monarch, however compliant, gave him insufficient control of the situation, and he arranged for Mexican Chief of State Benito Hermión to annex the islands to the U.S.M. Presumably after the annexation Hawaii had a governor appointed by Hermión at Cortez's direction.
Hermión justified the annexation in terms of the Moral Imperative, saying, "They will give us sugar, and we will give them Civilization. It is a fair trade." Ironically, Thomas Kronmiller of the Confederation of North America cited the Moral Imperative as justification for a proposed war with the U.S.M. to liberate the Hawaiians.
Sobels sources for the Hawaiian annexation are Swithen Hudd's We Took the Islands: My Role in the Annexation of Hawaii (Mexico City, 1899); and Nathan Durfree's Hawaii: Its History (London, 1969).