Abstract

MONTERROSA CUBIAS, Luis Gerardo. A proposal to “ignite the revolutionary flame in Central America”. Central American exiles in Mexico 1936. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2020, n.159, pp.109-136.  Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.159.2020.599.

This article grew out of an archival discovery. A petition addressed o President Lázaro Cárdenas in 1936 by two Central American exiles to invade Honduras and ignite the revolutionary flame in Central America. In the following pages I analyze this proposal from its political context, the trajectory of the exiles and the response of the Cardenismo. The result is the approach of two aspects little examined in the historiography of the thirties: the plans to overthrow the authoritarian Central American governments made from abroad and the foreign policy of Cardenismo towards this region.

Keywords : Central America; Mexico; cardenismo; political dissidence; exile.