Mexico and Japan during the Spanish Civil War: The case of the Ship Florida Maru
Por:
Uscanga, Carlos, Alvarez Ponce, Laura Alejandra
Publicada:
1 ene 2022
Resumen:
When the Spanish civil war broke out, the government of Mexico, led by
president Lazaro Cardenas, undertook from humanitarian actions to direct
and indirect support for the shipment of arms and ammunition to confront
Franco's forces. In this context, the ``Florida Maru incident'' takes
place, a ship with a Japanese flag, which was transporting a shipment of
military equipment bound for the port of Manzanillo, produced a complex
diplomatic dispute between Mexico and Japan that could be addressed
through dialogue and the negotiation. In this sense, this article seeks,
through a descriptive-historical analysis, to identify the context of
Spanish-Mexican relations in the framework of the civil war; and then
focus on the analysis of the Florida Maru through the analysis of the
documents consulted in the historical archives of the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs of Mexico and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan,
which allow us to identify two important findings: In the first place ,
the priority of the Lazaro Cardenas government to support the Second
Republic in supplying arms using all the logistical and diplomatic means
available to the embargo policies of the United States and other
European countries; second, the deployment of dialogue and lobbying as
instruments to resolve diplomatic tensions with Japan, which were
resolved without compromising the traditional ties of friendship that
both countries had cultivated since the formal beginning of their
political and diplomatic contacts at the end of the century XIX.
Filiaciones:
Uscanga, Carlos:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Ciencias Polit & Sociales, Ciudad De Mexico 04510, Mexico
Alvarez Ponce, Laura Alejandra:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Ciencias Polit & Sociales, Ciudad De Mexico 04510, Mexico
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