Mexico–United States relations

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Mexico and the United States have a strained history, with the American invasion in the 1840s and the subsequent American occupation and annexation of more than 50% of former Mexican territory, including Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, parts of Colorado, parts of Oklahoma, parts of Kansas and New Mexico. Pressure from the American government was one of the factors that helped force the French invaders out in the 1860s. During the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the coup against mexican president Francisco I. Madero was heavily supported by the American government through the pact of the embassy. Other tensions resulted in the Cold War through the so-called Mexican Dirty War. The two nations share a maritime and land border. Several treaties have been concluded between the two nations bilaterally, such as the Gadsden Purchase, and multilaterally, such as the 2019 United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, replacing the 1994 NAFTA. Both are members of various international organizations...

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