On February 2, 1848, Mexico ceded more than half of its territory to the United States (USA) through the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thus ending the war started in 1846 by American President James Knox Polk. .
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Through this document, Mexico lost the territory that today includes present-day California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and parts of Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
The text, formally called the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Definitive Agreement between the United Mexican States and the United States of America, was signed in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, north of Mexico City.
In 1846, in my opinion, North American imperialism was born through a war against Mexico that would last 2 years and that ended with the North American victory embodied in the Treaty of Guadalupe – Hidalgo in 1848.
It was an absolutely unequal war regarding equipment. pic.twitter.com/ODztpg7BH9– Free Homeland ✌ (@ Tano2412)
November 17, 2019
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Beginning of North American Imperialism
For the Twitter user identified as Patria Libre (@ Tano2412), US imperialism was born in 1846 through a war against Mexico, which was “absolutely unequal regarding equipment.”
The US was already an industrial power with 20 million inhabitants with a high technological development, which is why it provided its troops with a large number of modern weapons, while Mexico was a weakly developed country with an immense territory and only seven millions of inhabitants.
American War of Intervention
Thus, in January 1846, President Polk authorized General Zacarias Taylor to advance with his troops toward the Rio Grande, Mexican territory. After several clashes with soldiers of the Mexican army, the United States declared war on them in March 1846.
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In an unequal struggle, US soldiers took the port of Veracruz, in April 1847, confiscated customs, and finally, in September of that year, they seized the Mexican capital.
In January 1848 they began negotiations to agree to peace, which culminated in the drafting of the so-called Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Definitive Agreement between the United Mexican States and the United States of America.
The treaty was signed in the sacristy of the Basilica of Guadalupe, “La Villa”, and was signed by conservative politicians Bernardo Couto, Miguel Atristán and Luis G. Cuevas, representatives of Mexico, and by Nicholas P. Trist, US negotiator.
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In this way, Mexico lost more than two and a half million square kilometers.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established the border line between both countries, starting from the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo and with it the loss of the territories included in the new limits, which would be paid to the Mexican Republic for a sum of 15 million pesos .
After the signing of the treaty, the Mexican Cuoto told Trist: “This should be a proud moment for you, but for us it is humiliating.” Trist replied: “We are making peace; let that be our only thought.”
The president of Mexico, Valentín Gómez Farías, several times, in a written message to his children, declared: “The infamous sale of our brothers is already consummated, Our Government, our representatives, have covered us with shame and ignominy.”
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