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Volume 38 - January 1982

Contents

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Research Article

  • Mexican-Guatemalan Imbroglio: Fishery Rights and National Honor

  • Thomas Wolff
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2015, pp. 235-248

  • At seven o'clock on the morning of December 31,1958, President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes of Guatemala ordered his Air Force to bombard and sink vessels manned by Mexican nationals fishing clandestinely in his country's territorial waters. Simultaneously, his message was transmitted to Mexican and United States authorities in Guatemala. Ninety minutes later, after warning the fishermen through loudspeakers to proceed to the Guatemalan port of Champerico — announcements which brought only grimaces, lewd gestures, and attempted escape — the pilots strafed the flagless fishing boats, forcing one aground and two, the Elizabeth and the San Diego, to Champerico. Although the remainder of the fishing fleet was escorted by the Mexican Coast Guard to the Oaxacan port of Salina Cruz, seventeen casualties — three dead and fourteen wounded — resulted from the incident. While some of the injured Mexicans were hospitalized, ten of the survivors captured by Guatemalan authorities were incarcerated and subjected to military interrogation. Another of the progressively increasing number of inter-American fishing disputes was inexorably under way.

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Documents

  • An Ohio Yankee at Dom Pedro's Court: Notes on Brazilian Life in the 1850's by an American Diplomat, Robert C. Schenck

  • Allan Peskin, Donald Ramos
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2015, pp. 497-514

  • In 1850, after four terms in the United States Congress as a Whig from the Dayton, Ohio district, Robert Cumming Schenck decided not to run for reelection. Despondent over the recent death of his wife, Schenck yearned for a restful stay in a warmer clime. Consequently, he applied for a diplomatic post, the customary reward for loyal party service. President Millard Fillmore, a fellow Whig, obliged Schenck with an appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Brazil. A railroad promoter, land speculator and politician, Schenck had few formal qualifications for diplomatic service other than the confidence of Secretary of State Daniel Webster and a fluent command of the French language. These were, however, more substantial assets than most nineteenth century American diplomats could boast, and to them Schenck added a brisk, businesslike manner, immense energy and a certain gruff charm.

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