What is the official military relationship between the United States and Mexico?

Question

Since the Louisiana Purchase, Mexico has been our enemy or harbored enemies in every major war I am aware of. WW1, WW2, Spanish-American, and Mexican war. Are they now an ally, or just a semi-hostile neighbor?

Answer 1

You ask a very good question. I am a 59 year old male. I am an American born in Los Angeles, California.

My mother and father are Anglos. My late stepfather was a Mexican citizen, a physician and an attorney. He was a wonderful man and married my mother when I was 15 years old. His brother, Adolfo Lopez Mateos was President of Mexico from December 1958 to December 1964.

I have lived in Mexico and also have been a visitor there beginning in my childhood.

Your question is a hard one to answer. The relationship between the US and Mexico is perhaps the most interesting one of any two nations on earth.

World War I was quite an intrigue, with the Kaiser promising the Mexicans the return of the SW United States if Germany won the war. However, Mexico turned down the Kaiser and did not enter the war. A very good book to read about that is "The Zimmerman Telegram"

I do not consider the Mexican Republic an enemy of the United States. In fact, President Benito Juarez was an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, and a contemporary of Lincoln.

If you'd like a good read, get the book (I cannot think of it's name) by John Eisenhower, about the relationship during World War I. which was at the time that Mexico was having it's second revolution, between 1910 and 1920.

SInce we share a border of some 2000 miles from South Padre Island Texas to the Pacific Ocean in California, this situation has to work out, somehow.

Jim

PS, Dear Bobgelle:

When Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana, Mexico was still part of Spain.

Answer 2

Those two militaries cooperate on two issues:

1)Mexico’s military of course has played a fundamental role in the fight against narco-trafficking in our two countries. Both the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), headed by General Gerardo Clemente Ricardo Vega García, and the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR), headed by Admiral Marco Antonio Peyrot, have continued devoting significant resources and manpower towards drug interdiction and eradication. Last year and this year thus far, the Mexican military has interdicted large quantities of illegal drugs. They have, likewise, provided key assistance in the arrest of several wanted narcotraffickers.
2)Border security. This very important meeting will provide both leaders with the opportunity to discuss methods of responding immediately to violence in our border region.

Answer 3

i'd go with passively hostile.

hoepfully their new president will form a better bond. he is taking action, militarily and politically, to clean up his country. a partnership with our military, law enforcement and intelligence community is necessary for them to do the job correctly.

one problem is the major corruption in mexico. the last time we helped train crack troops (anti narcotic units known as the Zetas), they went AWOL and now work for the cartels.... a different set of ethics and values in that country.

Answer 4

I don't know where you get your information, but I would look for a new place. The US has harbored more criminals, including Nazi's, vietnamese, koreans, Russians, and anybody else you can think of.

Answer 5

Neither.

A 3rd world X hole.

Answer 6

We are their baby's daddy...