Why Should The United States Return Mexico's Lost Territory

Yvonne Xi

Mr. Cutler

Latin American History

2018-01-06

The United States should return Mexico’s lost territory

Unhesitatingly expanding its regions to the west, the United States was motivated by the idea of “Manifest Destiny” that the extension of the United States all through the American continent was unavoidable and justified. It was believed firmly by the people in United States that the United States would have endless possibilities and unlimited potentials becoming a developed country. In the same time, Mexico could not control over the vast lands it had acquired from Spain and suffered from the profound interior political divisions. The war burst between them during 1846-1848. Without any doubts, the United States should return Mexico’s

The United States got a lot of main important lands from Mexico and used them as its continental power. Mexico lost almost half of its land and the United States gained a lot of lands from Mexico where is the present American Southwest from Texas to California. However, the United States was not justified in taking half of Mexico’s territory in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas is the Mexican left statesman. In his opinion, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo abuses fundamental global legal standards. There were also many important articles that supported his idea such as “those dealing with citizenship, property and the security of 100,000 Mexicans who remained on what became American territory”.

People should remember the true history of the U.S.-Mexian War. It led toward a question that “to what extend of the historic prosperity of the United States of America stems from the development of territories originally inhabited by Mexicans and ripped away from Mexico through an invasion and a war of territorial

Like any other wars, the U.S.- Mexican War was “fundamentally about violence — a violence that did not end once the war or the military phase of the war ended”. The war, to some extent, was about brutality, allocation, racism and expropriation. The war was about “labor, acquiring or making wealth, about capitalist development and what that means”. By claiming this concept in the war, the warriors took land from Native Americans and Mexican violently by showing dominating power of Andrew Jackson to realize their “American dreams”. The behavior of America that seizing lands from a weak neighbor country is not justified because it is morally wrong to seize a country that is much weaker. People who were violated would have eternal trauma, which leads to the result that the concept of Manifest Destiny is actually brutal and aggressive. The American actions are not justified because they were just taking their own benefits by doing violent