Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States

By Sofía Guadarrama

In 1848 Mexico lost 55% of its national territory: California, New Mexico and Texas were annexed to the United States and divided among what is now California, Nevada, Utah, half of Colorado, a section of Wyoming, a stretch of Kansas and another piece of Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

There is no way to justify this theft. It doesn't matter if we are left or right. But we must also learn to turn the page.

Later, in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the United States intervened again in Mexican territory on April 21, 1914, not with the intention of expanding its territory, but to overthrow Victoriano Huerta.

On March 18, 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río nationalized the country's oil industry, today known as the "oil expropriation", from 17 foreign companies, mainly American and British, which controlled 95% of the oil market in Mexico. This generated a lot of tension between Mexico and the United States.