Mexico and the Consequences of the Spanish Civil War: Asylum, Recognition, and Republican Legitimacy

As an international middle power, Mexico’s diplomatic processes focus on ensuring

its national security and pursuing narrow range, mutually influential regional and global

diplomatic agreements. The focal point of the research involves examining the Mexico’s

interactions with Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany to understand the implications of

Mexico’s global relations between 1930 and 1968 as they relate to policies of recognition (or

lack thereof) and anti-fascist diplomacy. This paper investigates a case study on the diplomatic

relationship between Mexico and Spain. With this focus, I seek to determine how Mexico’s

leaders and diplomats recognized the negotiations of asylum for Spanish exiles, the rupture of

relations between Mexico and the Francoist government in Spain, and the presence of Spanish

Republican government in exile in Mexico City.