Pan American Conference (1889)
The Pan American Conference of 1889 took place in Washington between October 2, 1889 and April 19, 1890 .
Representatives of all American states took part in this congress with the exception of Paraguay , Haiti and Santo Domingo . The congress was held at the invitation of the USA to discuss a closer economic and political union of America.
The subjects of the discussions were the facilitation of trade relations through customs agreements and through a uniform system of measurements, weights and coins, the appointment of international arbitrators ( ombudsmen ) and the like.
However, mainly Latin American representatives were reserved about these proposals. José Martí, for example, who attended as an observer, said he was very certain that the Ibero-Americans would free themselves from Spanish tyranny, but it was time for Hispanic America to declare its second independence. He meant a cultural and ideal independence from the North American continent, as he expressed more clearly in his essay Nuestra América, which was published parallel to the conference .
The first Pan American conference produced little results.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Bill J. Karras, Jose Marti and the Pan American Conference, 1889-1891. In: Revista de Historia de América. 77/78, 1974, pp. 77-99.
- ↑ José Martí in: Gregorio Recondo: El sueño de la Patria Grande. Ideas y Antecedentes Integracionistas en América Latina. Buenos Aires 2001, p. 130.