NO! It wasn't!

Do you think it's easy to live with the yanks (or gringos , as the Mexican say) over you? No, it isn't.

Living here, I have realised that in the 1940s, Mexico was recovering from the horrendous first 20 years of the century, civil war, famine, etc. The Mexican politicias (supossely democratic) obviously were not going to defy their Northern neighbour just for vague promises that Berlin could make... Even if the USA was not very happy with the Mexican government (the petrol industry had just been nationalised, taken away from foreigners in 1938) they would need Mexico for the incoming war: the petrol, the natural resources and the man power.

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun