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Social, Economic, and Political Aspects of the Carias Dictatorship in Honduras: The Historiography

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HISTORIA DE LOS SIN HISTORIA, 1900-1948. By ArguetaMario R. (Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras, 1992. Pp. 128.)

PORQUE QUIERO SEGUIR VIVIENDO HABLA GRACIELA GARCIA. By VillarsRina. (Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras, 1991. Pp. 359.)

TIBURCIO CARIAS: ANATOMIA DE UNA EPOCA, 1923-1948. By ArguetaMario R. (Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras, 1989. Pp. 390.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Dario A. Euraque*
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Trinity College
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References

1. Caudillos, Dictators in Spanish America, edited by Hugh M. Hamill (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 3.

2. An early official account is that by Lucas Paredes, Biograf僘 del Dr. y Gral. Tiburcio Carias Andino (Tegucigalpa: Ariston, 1938).

3. Gilberto Gonzlez y Contreras, Un pueblo y un hombre: Honduras y el General Carias (Tegucigalpa: Imprenta La Democracia, 1934); Gonzlez y Contreras, El ltimo caudillo (Mexico City: Costa-Amic, 1946); Margot Lainfiesta, El renacimiento de una nacin cmara lenta (Tegucigalpa: Imprenta Caldern, 1936); Lainfiesta, Honduras comienza hoy (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1937); and Salvador Maldonado R., Reportaje sobre Honduras (Mexico City: n.p., 1946).

4. Antonio Ochoa Alcntara, La nueva Honduras (hacia un verdadero nacionalismo) (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1934); Carlos Izaguirre, Honduras y sus problemas de educacin (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1935); Izaguirre, Readaptaciones y cambios (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1936); Julin Lpez Pineda, La reforma constitucional (Paris: Ediciones Estrella, 1936); Lpez Pineda, Democracia y redentorismo (Managua: Tipografa Guardian, 1942); Daniel Hernndez, La justificacin histrica de la actual prolongacin en el poder (La Esperanza: n.p., 1940); Romualdo Elpidio Meja, La obra patritica del Congreso Nacional (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1941); and Meja, La vida y la obra de un estadista (Tegucigalpa: La Epoca, 1942).

5. Luis Meja Moreno, El calvario de un pueblo (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1937); and Meja Moreno, El calvario de los demagogos (Tegucigalpa: Tipografa Nacional, 1939).

6. See the following works by Angel Ziga Huete: Desastre de una dictadura (Kingston, Jamaica: Times, 1937); Un cacicazgo centroamericano (Mexico City: Imprenta Victoria, 1938); Idolo desnudo (Mexico City: Accin Moderna Mercantil, 1939); Carta abierta a Tiburcio Carias Andino (Mexico City: n.p., 1943); Cartas: una actitud y una senda (Mexico City: n.p., 1949); and Conflicto cvico entre la dictadura y el pueblo: mi contribucin por la liberacin de Honduras (Tegucigalpa: Imprenta La Razn, 1949).

7. William S. Stokes, Honduras: An Area Study in Government (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1950).

8. Ibid., 25051, 29697.

9. Charles Kepner's and Jay Soothill's famous book was first published in English as The Banana Empire: A Case Study of Economic Imperialism (New York: Vanguard, 1935). The first Spanish edition was El imperio bananero: las compaas bananeras contra la soberana de las naciones del Caribe (Mexico City: Ediciones del Caribe, 1949). Other Spanish editions followed in the 1950s and 1960s.

10. Professor Dodd is working on an important manuscript on Caras.

11. See Mario Posas, Luchas del movimiento obrero hondureo (San Jos, Costa Rica: EDUCA, 1981).

12. Only two brief final chapters in Argueta's latest work, Historia de los sin historia, 19001948, add new material to Posas's research.

13. Sheldon Liss, Radical Thought in Central America (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1991), 108.

14. Samuel Z. Stone, The Heritage of the Conquistadors (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), 34.

15. See Filnder Daz Chvez, Caras, el ltimo caudillo frutero (Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras, 1982); and Rafael Bardales Bueso, Historia del Partido Nacional de Honduras (Tegucigalpa: ServiCopiax, 1980).

16. For a contribution along these lines, see the chapter on Honduras in Thomas M. Leonard, The United States and Central America, 19441949: Perceptions of Political Dynamics (Mobile: University of Alabama Press, 1984).

17. See Carlos A. Contreras, The Origins of the Honduran Professional Army, paper presented to the Social Science Association, 19 Mar. 1992, Austin, Texas. I wish to thank Professor Contreras for sharing his paper with me.

18. Alain Rouqui, The Military and the State in Latin America, translated by Paul E. Sigmund (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1987), 61.

19. These issues are not discussed in Leticia Salomon's Militarismo y reformismo en Honduras (Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras, 1982).

20. See James W. McMillan, Central America: Effects of Militarism on Regional Development (1930-1986), M.A. thesis, Lamar University, 1986, 5965.

21. Charles D. Ameringer, The Military Left in Exile: The Anti-Dictatorial Struggle in the Caribbean, 19451959 (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1974).

22. Leslie Bethell and Ian Roxborough, Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War: Some Reflections on the 19458 Conjuncture, Journal of Latin America Studies 20, pt. 1 (1988):167-87, citation on 167.

23. Leslie Bethell, From the Second World War to the Cold War, 19441954, in Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America, edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 54.

24. Ibid., 57.

25. See Economic Integration in Central America, edited by William R. Cline and Enrique Delgado (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1978), 188.