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Woodrow Wilson, Victoriano Huerta, and the Recognition Issue in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Peter V. N. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Boston, Massachusetts

Extract

I. The Evolution of the Law of Recognition until 1913

To state that the United States imperialistically meddled in Mexican internal affairs in 1913 would scarcely surprise the scholarly community. The theme of United States imperialism in Latin America has been the subject of dispassionate scholarship and patriotic diatribes. Regardless of their perspective, writers have generally focused upon the political, social, strategic, and economic aspects of intervention. Considerably less attention has been given the United States' creative use of international law to affect the internal stability of Latin American nations. This article will contribute to bridging this gap by analyzing the manner in which Woodrow Wilson used the law of recognition to unseat Mexico's dictator, Victoriano Huerta; a man Wilson considered unfit to govern.

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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1984

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