Rethinking the Cold War: Mexico and the United States before the conflict in Costa Rica of 1948

Abstract

This work will analyze the conflict in Costa Rica, through two axes of international politics; the first will be the position of Mexico against the Central American country through the reports issued by the Mexican Embassy in that country. The second will be evidence of the intervention of the United States in said conflict, through the reports issued by the Central Agency of Investigation (CIA). This will help to rethink the position of the "Cold War early", it was since 1948 that much of the continent felt the onslaught of this bipolar conflict, as was the case of Costa Rica, Colombia, with the so-called Bogotazo and Venezuela with the overthrow of Rómulo Gallegos. With this idea we will reflect on that historiography that considers the case of Guatemala in 1954 as the first trial of the Cold War.