This is a story I get to rewrite every triennial or so, about modern day claims that California's Channel Islands should still belong to Mexico. This insofar as during most Mexican congressional periods some legislator laments the loss of territory to the United States following the Mexican-American War (1846-48), and cites the fact that the eight Channel Islands were not specifically named in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the war ending peace contract that also delineated the United States-Mexico boundary.
Largely twaddle for pretext and show rather than genuineness, this time out the claim is being heard from a historian, Ricardo Melgar, a Peruvian working for Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
According to Melgar, who spoke at the XI International Congress of Regional History in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, on October 19, “the Mexican government must once again demand sovereignty over seven [sic] islands in the Pacific Ocean that were occupied by U.S. troops during the Second World War and never returned.”
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