El sueño de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica en la víspera del centenario de la Independencia. La Conferencia de San José, Costa Rica, diciembre de 1920 – enero de 1921

Abstract

The dream to create the American Federation made the five members of the historical America organize meetings by 1921. This article discusses these efforts. The first section describes how these efforts were capitalized by local-national interests. In the process of organizing politically and economically the Isthmus, the need for international arbitration, trade organization and design of a policy of non-interference in domestic affairs of neighboring countries was established. Also, the political interference of the U.S. is analyzed through the initiative of the Central American Peace Conference (1904). The second section discusses the Pact of San Jose, developed in the framework of the Centennial of Independence. The demand for greater citizen participation and the need to strengthen the public sphere is also studied. Finally, I study the union movement revival during the negotiations of the Pact of San Jose and the interest of Costa Rica to renegotiate the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty. Throughout the article the role of workers is outlined in a process that ended in the celebration of the centennial of the Independence of America and the design of a Federal Constitution in 1921.