The five republics of Central America

Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica, the five Republics of Central America, occupy a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, extending...

Early Political History of the Isthmus--Difficulty of Establishing a Stable Government--Annexation to Mexico--Establishment and Dissolution of the Central American Federal Repub...

Guatemala is the most important of the five Central American republics. Her two millions of people form about forty per cent of the entire population of the Isthmus, and her com...

Points of Resemblance Between Nicaragua, Salvador, and Honduras--Peculiar Geographical Situation of Nicaragua--Factors Which Have Caused Disorder There--Rivalry Between Leon and...

Salvador is the most important of the Central American republics, after Guatemala, although she has a far smaller territory than any of her neighbors. Almost all of her total ar...

The territory of Honduras may be roughly described as a triangle, the base of which is formed by the shore of the Caribbean Sea, and the other sides by the Guatemala-Salvador bo...

Although the territory of Costa Rica is approximately 23,000 square miles in area, nearly all of her four hundred thousand inhabitants, with the exception of some small groups o...

Strength of the Unionist Idea--Breakdown of the First Federation--Attempts to Establish a New Union--Obstacles to the Formation of such a Union at Present--Advantages which woul...

Civil War as a Characteristic Central American Political Institution--Character and Extent of the Conflicts--Forces back of Them: Unfitness of the People for Democratic Governme...

The Increased Responsibilities of the United States in the Caribbean Sea Since 1900--The San José Conference--The War of 1907--The Washington Conference and the Conventions Adop...

The Revolution of 1909--Attitude of the United States--Victory of the Conservatives--Financial and Political Difficulties Confronting the New Government--The Dawson Agreement an...

The foreign commerce of Central America is based upon the exchange of coffee, bananas, precious metals, and a few other products of minor importance for manufactured articles fr...

Sources of Revenue--Defects of the Fiscal Systems--Floating Debts--Brief History of the Bonded Debt in Each Republic--Depreciation of the Currency Systems--The Monetary Situatio...

The Economic and Political Interests of the United States in Central America--Intervention in the Internal Affairs of the Five Republics--Antagonism in Central America--Benefici...