ESTRADA DOCTRINE

Estrada Doctrine

• is the name of Mexico's core Foreign Policy ideal from 1930 to 2000. Its name derives from Genaro Estrada, Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the Presidency of Pascual Ortiz Rubio.
  
• The Estrada Doctrine favored an enclosed view of sovereignty. It claimed that foreign governments should not judge, for good or bad, governments or changes in governments in other nations, because it would imply a breach to its sovereignty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrada_Doctrine

• is a development on the earlier recognition of governments approach whereby a government would recognize another governments. This caused political problems following an unconstitutional change in the government of another state.
  
• policy of recognizing states rather than governments. It is an alternative to the method of express recognition, in which an express statement is made according or withholding recognition after each unconstitutional change of government, and tacit recognition in which, only under exceptional circumstances, is a recognition statement made.
  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_states_approach

• Mexican government declared that it would, as it saw fit, continue to terminate its relations with any country in which a political upheaval had taken place " and in so doing it does not pronounce judgement, either precipitately or a posteriori, regarding the right of foreign nations to accept, maintain or replace their governments or authorities"

(Cruz, International Law, 2003 edition)