Mexico’s Army and Air Force Manual (2009), in a section on the 1977 Additional Protocols, states: “Acts of hostility directed against historic monuments, works of art and places of worship … are prohibited.” 

Mexico’s Code of Military Justice (1933), as amended in 1996, provides for the punishment of a soldier who, without any imperative military necessity so demanding, “destroys libraries, museums, archives, aqueducts and important works of art”.