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The United States and the Rise of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Kenneth J. Grieb
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The military coup d'état which installed General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez as President of El Salvador during December 1931 created a crisis involving the 1923 Washington Treaties. By the terms of these accords, the Central American nadons had pledged to withhold recognition from governments seizing power through force in any of the isthmian republics. Although not a signatory of the treaty, the United States based its recognition policy on this principle. Through this means the State Department had attempted to impose some stability in Central America, by discouraging revolts. With the co-operation of the isthmian governments, United States diplomats endeavored to bring pressure to bear on the leaders of any uprising, to deny them the fruits of their victory, and thus reduce the constant series of coups and counter-coups that normally characterized Central American politics.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , November 1971 , pp. 151 - 172
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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