Señor Romero to Mr. Sherman.
Washington, January 24, 1898.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you that I have received instructions from my Government to denounce the treaty of extradition between Mexico and the United States which was signed in the City of Mexico December 11, 1861.
The reasons which my Government has for denouncing that treaty have been on several occasions pointed out by it when proposing its revision. To those reasons is added the conviction that the treaty lacks sufficient precision to prevent the confusion of purely political offenses with those of the common order perpetrated under some political pretext, as is demonstrated by what has recently occurred in the case of Jesus Guerra. The decision which the Department of State recently pronounced in that case corroborates in the conception of the Government of Mexico the necessity of concluding a new convention in such precise terms as shall not admit of conflicting decisions in analogous cases, and which shall, moreover, embrace other rules of action, the addition of which is suggested by experience.
Accept, etc.,