The construction of a new international approach and the normalization of relations between Mexico and the world

Abstract

Mexico faced a highly complex international situation during the presidency of Manuel Ávila Camacho.

The new government was faced with a context of internal and external polarization marked by the Second World War. His foreign policy was aimed from the beginning to normalize relations with the United States and, thereby, to obtain economic agreements to facilitate the country’s industrialization project. The Mexican-American approach involved the resolution of bilateral disputes caused by the Mexican revolutionary process, the progressive alignment of Mexico with collective security policy of Roosevelt and the subordination of its production with the collective to the U.S. war effort. Mexico’s participation in the conflict would eventually normalize relations with the outside and made possible the integration of Mexico within the Western bloc in the new post-war international scene.