Some Mexican Politicians Want Their Government to Sue America for Reparations Elias J. Atienza - The Libertarian Republic
go to original April 18, 2017

Some Mexican politicians want their old territory back and are trying to file a suit in the International Court of Justice for reparations and indemnification according to Foreign Policy.

It stems from the Mexican-American War which lasted from 1846 to 1848, when the United States took over half of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The argument is that the United States invaded Mexico and hinges on a line in the first sentence of the treaty, which admits that the United States invaded Mexico and therefore signed the treaty under duress, making the treaty null.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a prominent leftist politician, is leading the charge for the Mexican government to file a suit. His lawyer, told reporters that they were right in pursuing this.

"We are going to make a strong and tough case, because we are right. They were in Mexican territory in a military invasion," Guillermo Hamdan Castro said to reporters last month who started a website outlining their demands.

However, it is unlikely the Mexican government will pursue this or it will even be allowed in the courts. The United States also doesn’t recognize the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction to enforce its decisions in cases such as this.

Read the rest at The Libertarian Republic

Related: The Other Dispute on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Foreign Policy)

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