American Supervision of Foreign Elections

Archive Report

A national election for the choice of a new president to serve during the next four years will be held in Nicaragua on Sunday, November 4, 1928, under American supervision. In three other Latin-American countries - Haiti, Santo Domingo and Panama -elections have heretofore been supervised by the United States. The projected plebiscite under American supervision in Taona and Arica to decide the dispute between Chile and Peru over possession of the provinces was abandoned in the spring of 1926, after six months of preparation, when it was decided that a fair plebiscite was impossible under the existing conditions.

The agreement for American supervision of the forthcoming Nicaraguan election was the direct result of the visit of Colonel Henry L. Stimson in 1927 as special ...

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