Central America Der Brockhaus-Atlas. Die Welt in Bild und Karte, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1937 At the Évian Conference, representatives from the Central American countries of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, [...]
Ten Days in July The delegates of Costa Rica (Louis Dobles Segreda), Nicaragua (Constantin Herdocia), Guatemala (José G. Diaz) and Honduras (Mauricio [...]
Conference and Sub-Committees The Conference Honorary President: Henry Bérenger (France) President: Myron C. Taylor (US) Secretary General: Jean-Louis Paul-Boncour (League of Nations) Five public meetings Wednesday, [...]
Bolivia * 19 June 1891 Sucre † 1980 The son of a French father and a Bolivian mother, Adolfo Costa du Rels grows up in France, where he studies literature and law. In 1912, Costa du Rels returns to Bolivia. He [...]
Colombia * 15 August 1885 Medellín † 22 July 1950 Bogotá Luis Cano Villegas begins writing while a student in Medellín and publishes several newspapers with his brother. Because of press restrictions in Colombia, [...]
Costa Rica Unlike many other Latin American states, the small yet prosperous Central American country of Costa Rica has experienced scarcely any periods of violence. Because of increasingly stringent immigration laws in the [...]
Costa Rica Regulations for obtaining an entry visa to Costa Rica, Austrian Chancellery, 1938, p. [...]
Costa Rica Regulations for obtaining an entry visa to Costa Rica, Austrian Chancellery, 1938, p. [...]
Costa Rica * 27 January 1889 Heredia † 27 September 1956 Heredia Dobles Segreda comes from a wealthy family of coffee merchants that loses its fortune when coffee prices tumble around the turn of the century. Dobles [...]
Guatemala Jorge Ubíco, who rises to power in Guatemala in 1931 after running unopposed, relies primarily on the secret police and informers to enforce and maintain his authoritarian government. There are severe restrictions on [...]
Honduras In the early 1930s, with the support of the Guatemalan strongman Ubíco and the El Salvadoran dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Honduran dictator Tiburcio Carías Andino prevails against the Liberal [...]
Nicaragua Compared to the three other dictators, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, founder of Central America’s longest lasting dictatorship, succeeds relatively late in prevailing over large parts of the country’s elite. At [...]
Nicaragua * 18 January 1880 Ciudad de León, Nicaragua † 21 May 1953 San José, Costa Rica Born in Nicaragua, Constantino Herdocia y Terán studies medicine in Paris and Berlin. In 1913, after completing his studies, [...]
Panama Panama has been dependent on the US ever since its foundation in 1903, both economically and politically. In response to the increasing political influence of the National Socialist German Reich, the US is counting on a [...]