Los que llegaron - Ingleses (14/03/2012)

The first English settlers settled in Mexico in 1823, when Pedro Romero de Terreros, the third Count of Regla, sought out investors in England to rehabilitate his flooded mines. British immigration to Mexico began immediately after the country achieved its independence: England was one of the first countries to recognize independent Mexico. Porfirio Díaz granted large concessions, and one of the main British investments was in the oil industry. By 1910, the Águila Oil Company controlled 58% of the country's oil production. In 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas decreed expropriation, and relations between the two countries were severed. Relations between the two countries were finally restored during World War II, when the belligerent countries needed Mexican oil. Currently, the British community numbers nearly 23,000 people.