(Enclosure No. Report No. 180)
EL NUEVO TIEMPO January 9, 1925.
TRANSLATION THE Less than in the Antilles, but more than among the other peoples of Spanish America, the life of the Central American peoples, with the exception of Costa Rica, has been strikingly confused and disordered.
During the Colonial period they formed a single entity, but upon the coming of independence was noted from the first moment a disintegration among the small provinces that had formed the.
Capta incy General of Guatemala.
And in the combination that was then formed, there was every sort of project: annexation to Great Colombia, annexation to Mexico, which was carried out by force during the short lived rule of Itúrbide; Central American confederation, a plan that has failed many times; indeed, every device which the human intelligence could concoct to bring tranquillity to regions eternally disturbed.
Because in thses Provinces that have been called States, although in reality by their customs, their advantages and geographical position, simply parts of a perfectly defined group, there have occurred not only internal revylutions, but also at each step, armed clashes among themselves which had more the appearance of civil war than of international conflicts.
Under those conditions, they soon fell under the influence of the North American imperialists, who since Walker, wi sh ed to make of Nicaragua a fief of filibusters, protected by Yankee capital, and who have since sustained and put down tyrants like the Guatemalan Estrada Cabrera, or have brought about interventions like those that have put an end to the sovereignty of Honduras and Nicaragua In this last country, especially, the North American policy has revealed itself in all its crudity.
There, of late, they could do nothing