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This book is a survey of the frequent attempts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica to combine into a single large state. Using the Central American Archives, the author traces all of the known attempts at federation and analyzes the more basic reasons for continued lack of success.For the past one hundred and thirty-odd years, an effective and lasting union has eluded the states of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. On no less than twenty-five different occasions their leaders have met in vain at the conference table to discuss union. Why they have failed to implement this dream is the major question posed by the present study. Generally, union has failed because of defective representative government, Costa Rica’s isolationist attitude, and nationalism—a lack of it in the earlier days and a surfeit, at the state level, in the more recent period. Other factors encouraging separatism have been poor communications, weak economic ties, a rugged topography, ignorance of the masses, an insufficiency of experienced leaders, and the jealousies and ambitions of rival municipalities and provinces. Small wonder indeed that Central American

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Author

Thomas L. Karnes

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807808160

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Latin American History, Humanities