Abstract

MONTERROSA CUBIAS, Luis Gerardo. Central American Authoritarian Regimes during the 1930s: A Historiographic Assessment and Research Perspectives. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2019, vol.14, e396.  Epub Aug 07, 2020. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2019.v14.396.

This article carries out a historiographic assessment of the authoritarian regimes installed in Central America during the 1930s. Four sources were selected and analyzed for this assessment. The article first explains three themes that emerge from these sources: the seizure of power and the rulers’ providential mental framework, their way of preserving power, and their relationship to Washington D.C. The article then proceeds to identity the methodological differences between these four sources, pointing to the research pathways that these works foster.

Keywords : political regime; authoritarianism; power; historiography; archives.