El "conflicto mexicano" en 1914 : la visión de un académico argentino

Abstract

In 1914, after listening to the talk given by José León Suárez, international law professor, in the National University of Argentina, about the origins of the strained situation between the United States and Mexico, his students asked him to write it down. This is the origin of the essay entitled The Mexican conflict: its background and its legal and economical aspects, published on May of the same year. The vast knowledge about the law theorists that he had, the way in which he examined critically the journalistic articles and the documents he gathered, as well as the approach to several works —The presidential succession in 1910, by Francisco I. Madero, among others— allowed the Argentinean scholar to analyze, taking into account its different aspects, a subject that involved the debated matter of the trusts, the sovereignty and the interventionism then —and even now— currently burning.