ABSTRACT
Legislation applied in the divers nations and admiralty regulations is considered one of the major macroeconomic factors. Bilateral relations often come up as priority, and often conflictive, topics. The resistance of the United States government, and certain private sectors in that country, to recognizing the rights of Third World countries has been singularly high-handed with regard to Mexico. From the strictly political point of view, the achievement of equitable agreements between Mexico and the United States in admiralty questions should be a high-priority matter. While Mexico's admiralty philosophy has always been in harmony with the precepts established by International Law, the United States—in the majority of cases—has tended to favor the interests of international pressure groups. On May 4, 1978, Mexico and the United States entered into a Sea Limit Treaty, signed by then-Mexican Foreign Secretary Santiago Roel and his American counterpart, Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State.
