La participación de México en el Segunda Guerra Mundial (SGM) Si bien es conocido por la intervención del Escuadrón 201, después de mantener una postura neutral al principio, también se destacó por su participación en aspectos económicos y geopolíticos durante el conflicto.
Tras él Ataque alemán A los barcos de petróleo mexicanos ‘Potrero del Llano‘, el 13 de mayo de 1942 y’Cinturón de oro‘El 20 de mayo de ese mismo año, en el Golfo de México, la agresión causó al gobierno del Presidente Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940-1946) declarará el guerrillero Alabama Eje y estar inclinado a los aliados.
Él Escuadrón 201 Era la única unidad militar mexicana que tenía una participación directa en el campo de batalla, con 53 misiones de apoyo directo de tierras en Luzón (Filipinas) en el verano de [1945.
Precisely this week, at 100 years of age, Sergeant César Maximiliano Gutiérrez Marín, the last survivor of the 201, hero and veteran of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force (FAEM) who participated in World War II, according to the National Defense Secretariat, died.
Mexico and its geographical location
In an interview with Efe, Martha Ortega Soto, teacher in History for the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), stressed that “the geographical location what you have Mexiconot only as a commercial partner and as a US labor force provider, he has given the country a presence in international relevance issues. ”
He recalled that, at that time, “the most important thing for American geopolitics was the Pacific (…) and avoiding a possible expansion of Japanese interests in Latin America was of priority interest for the United States.”
-In addition, he said that as Mexico is a Mining country par excellence, one of the interests of the United States was that the country “will exploit that industry to produce the raw materials as copper, zinc, lead and export them to the United States for the industry Armamentistic“.
And here, he added, it is where, perhaps Mexico “has a more relevant participation, not for the 201 Squadron, which is important, but because what worries the US government is that Japanese ships can seize or can reach the Mexican coasts and from there put together an offensive.”
“It is a possibility, it did not happen. But on the stage of the war they had to contemplate it (…) then the US government itself declared, after 1941, that the defense of Mexico was a matter of national security,” said Ortega Soto.
With EFE information
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