Coffee and Politics in Central America: The Coffee Elites of El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua

1850年至1893年间，一个由咖啡种植者、加工商和出口商组成的农业精英在中美洲除洪都拉斯以外的每个独立共和国掌权。他们直接或间接地统治，直到1948年在哥斯达黎加，1979年在萨尔瓦多，并在索莫扎和桑地诺派的尼加拉瓜产生了影响。萨尔瓦多、哥斯达黎加和尼加拉瓜独裁、民主和革命的社会起源与这些咖啡精英的不同政治密切相关。他们的观点对该地区的经济发展、和平与民主的前景仍然至关重要。这项研究将探索这些精英的经济、政治观点和历史经验，并补充先前对他们的经济活动和社会起源的研究。这项研究基于对中美洲和佛罗里达州迈阿密咖啡精英家庭成员的深入采访，并辅之以对中美洲收藏的档案研究。这项研究扩展了这位研究人员发表的关于中美洲咖啡出口经济体的研究，并将有助于理解处于危机中的地区的政治。

Between 1850 and 1893 an agrarian elite of coffee growers, processors, and exporters came to power in every independent republic in Central America except Honduras. They governed, directly or indirectly, until 1948 in Costa Rica, 1979 in El Salvador, and were influential in the Somozas' and the Sandinistas' Nicaragua. The social origins of dictatorship, democracy, and revolution in El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua are closely tied to the divergent politics of these coffee elites. Their views remain crucial to prospects for economic development, peace, and democracy in the region. This research will explore the economic and political views and historical experience of these elites and supplement earlier research on their economic activities and social origins. The research is based on in-depth interviews with members of coffee elite families in Central America and in Miami, Florida, supplemented by archival research in Central American collections. The study extends the investigator's published research on Central American coffee export economies and will contribute to an understanding of the politics of a region in crisis.