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MEJIA, Ana Johari. The conflict over the consulate and the German companies in Tapachula, Mexico (1921-1923). Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.173, pp.7-30.  Epub 25-Ago-2023. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v44i173.946.

Traditionally, the German community of Tapachula, in Southeastern Mexico has been considered a closed group formed by coffee traders with commercial and national ties. However, in 1921 the colony was convulsed by a conflict related to the designation of the German consul. The conflict exposed the old economic disputes, personal interests and the commercial strategies of the German coffee merchants and how they followed their business objectives and mobilized the resources at their disposal for such purposes. The analysis of this conflict will help to understand the way in which coffee entrepreneurs built alliances and negotiated despite the distance from their country of origin. It is also possible to learn about the different political positions they adopted in the context of historical changes and, particularly, in the context of the recent social democratic government of the Weimar Republic, in Germany. With the information obtained from the Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts in Berlin, we have been able to reconstruct a conflict and the commercial dynamics of the Germans settled in Soconusco, a small group that had a greater permanence in the region because of its socioeconomic power.

Palavras-chave : Commerce; Germans; conflict; interests; Soconusco.

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