By: Omar Silva I Editor/Publisher

National Perspective Belize I Digital 2025

www.nationalperspectivebz.com

Belize City Wednesday 3rd December 2025

**NP Special Feature EDITORIAL

There are moments in world history when a nation’s past speaks louder than its present, when an old wound becomes a global warning. Mexico’s brilliant diplomatic strike at the United Nations was one of those moments.

For nearly two centuries, the United States has dictated the political weather of the Western Hemisphere — sometimes with guns, sometimes with dollars, often with moral hypocrisy wrapped in “democracy” and “security” rhetoric. But Mexico, the country the U.S. once dismembered by force, walked into the UN General Assembly and said:

“We remember what you did in 1848.

And we reject the doctrines that allow you to do it again.”

The world listened.

And the world agreed.

120 nations — CELAC, Africa, Asia, the Middle East — stood firmly behind Mexico.

Only five nations opposed them — all English-speaking, all heirs of empire.

It was not a vote.

It was a global verdict.

**THE ANGER OF HISTORY:

Guadalupe Hidalgo Lives in Every Border the World Fears Losing**

The United States prefers to believe that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is a dusty chapter in an old history book. It is not.

It is the symbol of everything the modern world rejects:

• invasion disguised as necessity,
• annexation disguised as law,
• racial dominance disguised as “Manifest Destiny.”

Mexico reminded the UN that its northern neighbor once tore away 55% of its land with cannons, troop columns, and threats — not diplomacy.

And that same neighbor now floats the idea of military intervention inside Mexico under the new imperial slogan:

“If you are unwilling or unable, we will do it for you.”

This is the modern version of the 1846 lie.

This is why Mexico struck back — not with armies, but with law.

**THE U.S. CANNOT BELIEVE IT:

The Old Empire Stands Alone**

When the votes were cast, the truth was exposed:

THE WORLD: 120 nations in favour of Mexico

— defending sovereignty, dignity, international law, and the right of all states to exist without foreign boots on their soil.

THE ANGLOSPHERE: 5 votes against

— defending their “special privilege” to intervene whenever they please.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — the same club that carved continents, overthrew governments, and dictated which nations live or die — suddenly found themselves isolated, outvoted, and morally naked before the world.

The empire stood alone.

The world stood with Mexico.

THE WORLD SAID ENOUGH

Why did Africa stand with Mexico?

Because Africa knows the language of forced borders.

Why did CELAC stand with Mexico?

Because Latin America remembers the coups, invasions, blockades, and puppet regimes.

Why did the Middle East stand with Mexico?

Because they have endured the full weight of “unilateral security doctrines.”

Why did Southeast Asia and South Asia stand with Mexico?

Because they know what it means when superpowers claim the right to ignore the UN Charter.

Mexico’s message was the message of the Global South:

“We will not let international law be rewritten to suit the desires of the powerful.”

THE REAL REASON THE U.S. IS PANICKING

Make no mistake:

This is not about cartels.

This is not about terrorism.

This is not about “security.”

This is about the United States wanting a legal excuse to intervene anywhere it wants — whenever it wants — without consequences.

Mexico just shattered that excuse.

And it did so by invoking the same wound that exposed American expansionism in 1848.

Guadalupe Hidalgo is no longer a forgotten treaty.

It is the indictment Mexico placed at the UN’s doorstep.

A historical crime repurposed as a legal shield.

And the world said “YES.”

THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN MORAL AUTHORITY

This was not simply a diplomatic defeat; it was a collapse of legitimacy.

For decades, Washington acted as if:

• Its wars are “just.”
• Its coups are “democratic assistance.”
• Its sanctions are “tools of freedom.”
• Its invasions are “stabilization missions.”
• Its exceptionalism is “global leadership.”

But Mexico exposed the core truth:

American hegemony rests on the belief that it is above the law.

Not anymore.

Not after the UN vote.

This is the most stinging rebuke the United States has faced in the 21st century.

And it came not from China or Russia —

but from the very nation it once carved up and humiliated.

THIS IS A TURNING POINT FOR LATIN AMERICA — INCLUDING BELIZE

Mexico’s diplomatic victory signals something larger:

A new hemispheric identity.

A revival of Latin dignity.

A rejection of the 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine.

A rejection of the U.S. “backyard” mentality.

It is a declaration that:

• sovereignty matters,
• borders matter,
• smaller states matter,
• the era of unchecked American power is collapsing.

And Belize must pay attention — because our region’s future depends on understanding this shift.

THE MESSAGE TO THE UNITED STATES IS CLEAR

You cannot cloak intervention in:

• “counterterrorism,”
• “counter-narcotics,”
• “pre-emption,”
• “unwilling or unable,”
• or any other geopolitical excuse.

You cannot repeat 1848 under new terminology.

You cannot return to the age of forced treaties and imposed borders.

And you can no longer rely on global silence.

THE WORLD HAS SPOKEN

Mexico stood up —

and the world stood with it.

120 nations shouted what many have whispered for decades:

“NO MORE EMPIRE.

NO MORE EXCEPTIONS.

NO MORE DOCTRINES OF DOMINATION.”

History has roared back,

and its echo is becoming the new global order.

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