Excerpt from National Debt of Mexico: History and Present Status At two former periods in the history of Mexico the financial policy of the government has played an important part in its destiny. In 1861, Mexico's foreign financial difficulties were largely instrumental in bringing about the intervention in its affairs by the triple alliance of Great Britain, ace and Spain pursuant to the Treaty of London of October 31, 1861. This alliance afterwards developed into the so-called French invasion, from which sprang the short-lived Second Empire of Mexico established by Napoleon hi. In 1885, the reduction and consolidation of its debt and the adoption of a definite financial program restored its national credit abroad, attracted foreign capital, and started Mexico on the road to the most prosperous period of its history. And now at the beginning of 1919, after seven years of revolution, the future welfare of Mexico once more depends, to a large extent, upon the degree of wisdom and foresight with which its financial policy is developed. In 1862, Manuel Payno, Minister 'of Finance, at the request of President Juarez, wrote a history of the Mexican debt with the evident purpose of showing that intervention was determined upon by Great Britain, France and Spain in order to collect the debts due its citizens. 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.