Details

Subject(s)

• Central America—Politics and government—1821-1951 [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Central America [Browse]
• Central America—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]
• Central America—Foreign relations [Browse]

Related name

• Gale (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

These records are the declassified diplomatic correspondence between the U.S. State Department and the embassies and consulates within the country. They concern all kinds of matters, including commercial, political, and diplomatic topics of the period, including the role of U.S. citizens within the country, U.S. companies, and any U.S. agencies that had business there. The assessment of political and economic events is also included, as well as relations between countries in Central America. This collection contains information about one of the most politically conflictive decades in Central American history, especially in Nicaragua. During the period, the United States intervened three times in Nicaragua (1909, 1912-1926, 1927-1934). It traces the relations between the various authoritarian regimes in Central America, including that of Gen. Federico Tinoco of Costa Rica and Manuel Cabrera Estrada (1898-1920). The latter was a close ally of the United Fruit Company, which during this period dominated the Caribbean coastal region of Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.

Notes

• Source library: U.S. National Archives.
• Areas of research supported by this collection include: U.S. intervention in Nicaragua; relations between Nicaragua and Costa Rica; economic interests of the United Fruit Company; and authoritarian regimes.

In

World scholar. Latin America & the Caribbean

OCLC

793864852

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