Belisario porras biography of albert

  • This analysis draws lessons about the failure of Wilsonian Pan–Americanism from an examination of the American occupation of Chiriquí, Panama, an event long.
  • Belisario Porras, a distinguished Panaman lawyer and a man of powerful political influence.
  • He focuses his attention on developments during Belisario Porras administration (1912-1916, and 1918-1924) to set out the case that criminal elements did not.

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    Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

    File No. 20272/28.

    Consul Lee to the Secretary of State.

    American Consulate,
    San Jose, December 28, 1909.

    Sir: I have the honor to report that on the afternoon of the 25th instant the inaugural session of the Fourth International Sanitary Convention of the American Republics was held in the National Theater of this capital.

    The convention is presided over by Dr. Juan J. Ulloa, and the different Republics of this continent were represented yesterday, at the first business session, as follows:

    • Colombia, Dr. Martin Amador.
    • Cuba, Dr. Hugo Roberts.
    • United States, Surg. Gen. Walter Wyman, and Surgs. R. H. von Ezdorf and John William Amesse, of the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
    • Mexico, Dr. Eduardo Liceaga and Dr. Jesus Monjares.
    • Guatemala, Dr. Nazario Toledo.
    • Honduras, Dr. Fernando Vasquez.
    • Panama, Dr. Belisario Porras.
    • Venezuela, Dr. Pablo Acosta and Dr. Luis Razetti.
    • Costa Rica, Dr. Juan J. Ulloa, Dr. Carlos Duran, Dr. José Maria Soto A., and Dr. Elias Rojos.

    The interesting features of the inaugural session were the addresses of Don Ricardo Fernández Guardia, the Costa Rican Secretary

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    Mr. Barrett concord Mr. Hay

    American Legation,
    Panama, Dec 6, 1904.

    No. 71 B.]

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    Panama As Crossroads of Empire & Crime

    A review of Illicit Nation: State, Empire, and Illegality on the Isthmus of Panama, by Matthew Scalena.

     

    “When you hit a rock with an egg, the egg breaks. Or when you hit an egg with a rock, the egg breaks.
    The United States is the rock. Panama is the egg. In either case, the egg breaks.”

    —Unidentified Panamanian diplomat, New York Times, 1927 (p. 174).

     

    One of the least studied Latin American countries among U.S. scholars, Panama has been a protagonist of the United States’ hemispheric history of empire, as Matthew Scalena’s Illicit Nation shows. This apparent contradiction will not surprise readers of Greg Grandin’s Empire’s Workshop (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), which argues that Latin America and the Caribbean are “like the camel not in the Koran”—an indispensable laboratory for American strategies and tactics of extraterritorial control since the early eighteenth century, and at the same time subject of little curiosity from the neighbor to the north and consistently absent in discussions about the United States and its empire. Scalena’s work on modern Panama puts new questions to this interpretation, while focusing on a new problem to the paradox of invisibility and prominence: illegality in