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The second French intervention in Mexico ( Segunda intervención francesa en México ) , also known as the Maximilian Affair , Mexican Adventure , the War of the French Intervention , the Franco-Mexican War or the Second Franco-Mexican War , was an invasion of Mexico in late 1861 by the Second French Empire , supported in the beginning by the United Kingdom and Spain . The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area ( officially , in Spanish : Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara ) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the second largest in the country after Greater Mexico City . Mexico ( México , [ ˈme.xi.ko ] , modern Nahuatl ) , officially the United Mexican States ( [ Estados Unidos Mexicanos , links = no ] , ) , is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America . It is bordered to the north by the United States ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by Guatemala , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico . The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ( Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques , OCDE ) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries , founded in 1960 to stimulate economic progress and world trade .