Excerpt from Latest Correspondence Between Mexico and Guatemala: With the Final Arrangement We are, therefore, in a position to insist on our arguments, as well as on our demands for satisfaction and reparation, and to complete these latter in view of subsequent events. Nevertheless, before coming back to the specific question which we have been discussing for so long a time, it would be well to recall, even if only in brief and general terms, the questions which we have discussed with Guatemala for some time back, and the conduct we have observed with that neighboring nation, which, according to the sentiments that we have desired to cultivate, we also consider our sister Republic. Without going back to the time of its independence, which was obtained through Mexico, nor to the long years of subsequent disputes with respect to limits, I will take, as a starting point, the treaty of 1882 which permanently determined those boundaries, depriving certain politicians of Guatemala of any pretext respecting our supposed usurpation of Chiapas (including Soconusco, ) that could be employed in the nursing of hostile sentiments towards our Republic, amongst the people of Guatemala. From the moment that this treaty was solemnly put in force by both governments, through the exchange of ratifications, sometimes in one way and sometimes in another, Guatemala has always procured delays in its execution; and the survey of the boundary line, that according to the provisions of that treaty, ought to have lasted two years, has now been twelve years in prosecution, with long interruptions, and according to the present state of affairs, it is impossible to say when it will be concluded. We have especially remarked the opposition to the determination of the parallel which runs from the Vertice de Santiago in the direction of the River Chixoy, the Chief Engineer of the Guatemala Commission always claiming that before such parallel be determined, an agreement should be arrived at between the engineers of both countries, that the Chixoy should be the terminus of this parallel, as if an agreement among those engineers could modify the convention concluded between the Minister of Guatemala and the undersigned. You will remember, that as proposed by myself, this convention was signed ad referendum on the 24th. of December, 1890, with the double purpose of showing an equitable deference to Guatemala, and of avoiding any new delays in the future. In the same agreement it was declared, that Mexico would abandon the interpretation which it had given to the treaty, (founded on the best of reasons, especially geographical, ) and that consequently, the parallel should run beyond the Chixoy and up to the Rio de la Pasion; a concession which we would make under the express condition, that no new difficulties should be placed in the way of the surveys of the boundary line, until the work was entirely completed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.