[mac_truck]

I believe that Mexico owned the land that you're referring to for about 27 years

Oh yeah? Who owned it before that?

[Michamilton]

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>I believe that Mexico owned the land that you're referring >to for about 27 years
>
>Oh yeah? Who owned it before that?
>

The first Spanish settlement in New Mexico was in 1598.
The Mexican American war (which annexed New Mexico for the US) was in 1846. It has been under some kind of Latin control much longer than it has been under US control.