Abstract

LEON ATEHORTUA CRUZ, Adolfo  and  KERN, Gudrun. Enrique Olaya Herrera: and his support for us interests in Colombia: the documents that the State Department did not want to reveal. Folios [online]. 2022, n.55, pp.65-87.  Epub July 22, 2022. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.55-12560.

This article explores an important period in the relations between the United States and Colombia. After the discomfort generated by the loss of Panama, the presidency of Enrique Olaya Herrera achieved to overcome any prevention or wound in the national elites and offered the closest and fiercest defense of us interests ever seen in Colombia during the first decades of the 20th century. Tostudythis hypothesis, the article briefly exposes the conditions preceding Olaya's government his election as president among crucial agreements-both explicit and implicit ones-with bankers, oil companies and State bureaucrats in Washington; and finally, his decisive role in the presidency. Based on existing bibliography, press releases and, principally, on documents hitherto unedited from the National Archive of the United States, this article illustrates a series of events while it analyses and reproduces documents that ata certain time the us State Department refused to publish to avoid harming the relations between the two countries, to protect some of its high-ranking officials, and to avoid a strong opposition against Olaya Herrera in Colombia.

Keywords : Enrique Olaya Herrera; oil; United Fruit Company; relations Colombia-USA.

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