Has Mexico ever cooperated with the US on joint military operations overseas?

[astro]

Re operations in strife torn areas like Somalia or Serbia, or in cooperative military exercises like Desert Storm or the Iraq war & Afghanistan , has Mexico ever contributed manpower to these types of exercises and/or operations?

[Loach]

According to Wiki:

The Mexican Army works around three preparedness missions, or plans:

DN1: Preparation of the military forces to repel external aggressions. No military armed force can leave Mexican territory without a declaration of war, and approval of the Congress. The last time this was invoked was in 1942, to send an expeditionary force to the Philippines, after war was declared against Germany and Japan, following the sinking of two Mexican ships by U-boats. In 1990 President Carlos Salinas de Gortari asked the permission of the Congress to send troops to the Gulf War, but it was refused, since there was no declaration of war against Iraq.

So no, the laws of the country prohibit using the military in that way.

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

[Balthisar]

Despite the cite, the Mexican army helped out post-Katrina, and entered our land for humanitarian aid purposes.

[spike404]

Originally Posted by Balthisar

Despite the cite, the Mexican army helped out post-Katrina, and entered our land for humanitarian aid purposes.

I wonder how many deserted?

[JRDelirious]

Originally Posted by spike404

I wonder how many deserted?

Searched various news archives: none, apparently.

There was controversy among the Mexican opposition at the time of the mission, but President Fox argued that the restrictions on foreign deployment are for "DN1" missions (combat/security operations), not for "DN3" missions (humanitarian relief), and the specific case was sympathetic enough to make it stick. (So, you see, the debate over Presidential authority to act as CinC w/o going to Congress is not exclusive to us). So I suppose that the standing policy right now is, no to going anywhere to risk getting shot at w/o a formal declaration of war, yes to diaster relief in their backyard. From what I read, it seems the policy has also been cause for debate, in that it keeps Mexico from participating in UN peacekeeping.

[No Me Ayudes Compadre]

To answer the question, in World War 2 a Mexican air squadron saw battle in the Philippines.

Wiki link.

[Loach]

Originally Posted by Balthisar

Despite the cite, the Mexican army helped out post-Katrina, and entered our land for humanitarian aid purposes.

It wasn't despite the cite, it was in the cite. It also mentions help in Indonesia during the disaster there.