Expropiación de la finca cafetalera La Caja en Costa Rica en el entorno de la segunda Guerra Mundial
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2013-08-23
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Peters Solórzano, Gertrud
Torres Hernández, Margarita
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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Entre las medidas más importantes que algunos gobiernos latinoamericanos tomaron para apoyar sus compromisos con la política de defensa del Hemisferio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, están el control, fiscalización y expropiación de bienes y negocios pertenecientes a ciudadanos o descendientes de alemanes, italianos y japoneses. El gobierno de Costa Rica no fue la excepción. En este artículo se estudia la rápida expropiación de la finca La Caja que pertenecía a la firma Otto Hübbe e hijos, situada en el cantón central de San José, y procura explicar históricamente la razón estratégica para expropiar dicha finca, a pesar de que beneficiaba y exportaba menos del uno por ciento de la cosecha nacional de café. También, se expone la reacción de sus propietarios, enmarcada en la jurisprudencia, al imponer apelaciones al gobierno costarricense y, se explican cuáles fueron los resultados de estas. Metodológicamente se triangularon, diversas fuentes escritas: series Junta de Custodia y Relaciones Exteriores del Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica y en la sección periódicos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Costa Rica, lo que permitió adentrarse en un contexto que permite develar la practicidad de las políticas imperialistas y del control estratégico llevado a cabo hacia los enemigos políticos de los países en guerra.
One of the concrete steps taking by the Latin American governments to support the American Foreign Policy towards the Second World War was to control, supervise, and expropriate the business, farms, buildings and banking accounts of Germans, Italians and Japanese citizen. The Costa Rican government was not an exception. We have studied the rapid expropriation of “finca La Caja”, owned by the firm Otto Hübbe e hijos, the coffee farm and buildings were located in La Uruca, at the central district of San José, Costa Rican capital. Among the justification of the government were the strategic location of the land, the modern “beneficio de café” and the links with important banks and commerce firms in Germany. Even thought the Hübbe family reacted judicially to the expropriation, the results were null. The research was base on different history sources, such as the “Junta de Custodia and Relaciones Exteriores” of the National Archives of Costa Rica and the newspapers section at the National Library of Costa Rica. The triangulation of information and data of those sources showed the strategic power of the United States over the Latin American countries and, the convenience of their governments to take advantage or the German capital and families, which were imprisoned in concentration camps in Latin America and the United States.
One of the concrete steps taking by the Latin American governments to support the American Foreign Policy towards the Second World War was to control, supervise, and expropriate the business, farms, buildings and banking accounts of Germans, Italians and Japanese citizen. The Costa Rican government was not an exception. We have studied the rapid expropriation of “finca La Caja”, owned by the firm Otto Hübbe e hijos, the coffee farm and buildings were located in La Uruca, at the central district of San José, Costa Rican capital. Among the justification of the government were the strategic location of the land, the modern “beneficio de café” and the links with important banks and commerce firms in Germany. Even thought the Hübbe family reacted judicially to the expropriation, the results were null. The research was base on different history sources, such as the “Junta de Custodia and Relaciones Exteriores” of the National Archives of Costa Rica and the newspapers section at the National Library of Costa Rica. The triangulation of information and data of those sources showed the strategic power of the United States over the Latin American countries and, the convenience of their governments to take advantage or the German capital and families, which were imprisoned in concentration camps in Latin America and the United States.
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GUERRA MUNDIAL II, 1939-1945, WORLD WAR II, 1939-1945, COSTA RICA, RELACIONES EXTERIORES, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, GOBIERNO LOCAL, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, POLÍTICA DE DEFENSA, DEFENSE POLICY