Mexican Revolutionary Constituencies and the Latin American Critique of US Intervention

Abstract

The Mexican Revolution and the new Constitution of 1917 produced trans- formations in the field of international law both in Mexico and across the Americas. The impact of these transformations, and particularly their implications for continental and regional debates over armed and unilateral interventionism, have tended to be overlooked by scholarship on inter- national relations and the Mexican Revolution.This chapter examines the redefinition of Mexican and Latin American conceptions of the international legal order, and the germination of new international legal doctrines concerning intervention and US unilateralism in the face of US armed intervention in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914.