Comments on: Japanese Invade Philipines! Donald Duck learns Spanish! Women vote! http://mexfiles.net/2007/08/20/japanese-invade-philipines-donald-duck-learns-spanish-women-vote/ ¡COMO MEXICO NO HAY DOS! The "Real Mexico" -- high-brow, low-brow, masked transvestite wrestlers, machete-wielding naked farmers, WalMart shoppers, Socialists, Capitalists, Big business and the weirdness that floats down from the north. Mexican art, history, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hiram Joel Jacques http://mexfiles.net/2007/08/20/japanese-invade-philipines-donald-duck-learns-spanish-women-vote/#comment-14250 Hiram Joel Jacques Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:31:34 +0000 http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/japanese-invade-philipines-donald-duck-learns-spanish-women-vote/#comment-14250 Your forgot to mention the 1941 Treaty between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mexico over claims made against each other. The treaty caused claims to be swapped between the two countries making Mexico then responsible for paying US Hispanics for any of their claims. It was never paid and a clever move by the US to prevent further court actions by US Hispanics against the US. San Diego, CA newpspaer article : 'Fight for the Lands' Texans seek compensation from Mexico for 12 million acres lost after 1848 treaty By Sandra Dibble STAFF WRITER April 16, 2005 EDINBURG, Texas – She learned the story as a little girl, growing up amid rattlesnakes and cactus thorns on a small cattle ranch in south Texas. The land is ours, they told her, all the way to the horizon and beyond. It was granted to our ancestors by Spain and Mexico, they said, then stolen after it became part of the United States in 1848. Aminta Zárate wants compensation – from Mexico. She is 86, a widow of prodigious memory and unswerving will. Over the past 27 years, she has gone to court, spoken with senators, met with ambassadors, petitioned presidents. And now the former elementary school cafeteria manager has joined forces with a San Diego law professor, demanding more than $2 billion from Mexico on behalf of her group, the Asociación de Reclamantes, or Association of Land Claimants. "It's more than money," Zárate said on a recent Saturday morning, seated inside a small office attached to her beige brick house in this quiet town of 45,000 residents. "I want justice for what they've done to our ancestors, that's what I want." The story is an odd historical footnote, overlooked in textbooks and unspoken in the classrooms of south Texas. But it has been passed down, like a burning torch, from generation to generation among the descendants of the original European settlers of this harsh, flat region on the U.S.-Mexico border – land that belonged to Spain, then Mexico, then the United States. The Cárdenas and the Cantus and the Ballis, the Longorias and the Cavazos and the Zárates, families whose ancestors never crossed the border. Rather, they like to say, the border crossed them, in 1848, after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Their petition boils down to this: In 1941, Mexico signed a treaty with the United States, agreeing to compensate 433 south Texas families for the loss of 12 million acres between the Rio Grande and Nueces rivers. The land once belonged to their ancestors and was part of Mexico, then became U.S. territory when the 1848 treaty was signed. But Mexico never did pay – and it shows no signs it will. ...... Your forgot to mention the 1941 Treaty between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mexico over claims made against each other. The treaty caused claims to be swapped between the two countries making Mexico then responsible for paying US Hispanics for any of their claims. It was never paid and a clever move by the US to prevent further court actions by US Hispanics against the US.

San Diego, CA newpspaer article :
‘Fight for the Lands’ Texans seek compensation from Mexico for 12 million acres lost after 1848 treaty
By Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITER
April 16, 2005
EDINBURG, Texas – She learned the story as a little girl, growing up amid rattlesnakes and cactus thorns on a small cattle ranch in south Texas. The land is ours, they told her, all the way to the horizon and beyond. It was granted to our ancestors by Spain and Mexico, they said, then stolen after it became part of the United States in 1848.
Aminta Zárate wants compensation – from Mexico.
She is 86, a widow of prodigious memory and unswerving will. Over the past 27 years, she has gone to court, spoken with senators, met with ambassadors, petitioned presidents. And now the former elementary school cafeteria manager has joined forces with a San Diego law professor, demanding more than $2 billion from Mexico on behalf of her group, the Asociación de Reclamantes, or Association of Land Claimants.
“It’s more than money,” Zárate said on a recent Saturday morning, seated inside a small office attached to her beige brick house in this quiet town of 45,000 residents. “I want justice for what they’ve done to our ancestors, that’s what I want.”
The story is an odd historical footnote, overlooked in textbooks and unspoken in the classrooms of south Texas. But it has been passed down, like a burning torch, from generation to generation among the descendants of the original European settlers of this harsh, flat region on the U.S.-Mexico border – land that belonged to Spain, then Mexico, then the United States. The Cárdenas and the Cantus and the Ballis, the Longorias and the Cavazos and the Zárates, families whose ancestors never crossed the border. Rather, they like to say, the border crossed them, in 1848, after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Their petition boils down to this: In 1941, Mexico signed a treaty with the United States, agreeing to compensate 433 south Texas families for the loss of 12 million acres between the Rio Grande and Nueces rivers. The land once belonged to their ancestors and was part of Mexico, then became U.S. territory when the 1848 treaty was signed. But Mexico never did pay – and it shows no signs it will. ……

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