Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia

Malta, monopoly and transnational. Revisiting the history of the Florida Ice and Farm Company (FIFCO), 1908-2015

Jorge Marchena Sanabria — 2025-02-06

This article analyzes the emergence and consolidation of the Florida Ice and Farm (FIFCO) brewing company, one of the most advanced and modern in the Costa Rican context. Founded in 1908, the company borders on a monopoly and is owned by the hegemonic factions of the local elite. Precisely, the objective of the research was to understand its crucial role as a source of wealth, alliances, and power of oligarchic families. Likewise, its peculiar relationships with the state apparatus, its tangle of subsidiaries, among other points, were studied. Methodologically, it is based on a business history linked to the elites, which not only addresses their corporate history, but also highlights their links with power. Finally, sources such as archival documents, newspapers and FIFCO reports were used.

Comentario del libro "El laberinto centroamericano: los hilos de la historia" de Héctor Pérez Brignoli.

Roy David González Sancho — 2025-05-13

En el libro “El laberinto centroamericano: los hilos de la historia” de Héctor Pérez Brignoli, se recogen una serie de trabajos realizados por el autor sobre historia centroamericana realizados en el periodo comprendido entre 1998 y 2005.

Dichas producciones se realizaron en el marco de las experiencias acumuladas por el autor en obras realizadas anteriormente como: “Centroamérica y la Economía Occidental, 1520-1930”; “Breve historia de Centroamérica” y “Historical Atlas of Central America”, así como de sus labores como editor en dos volúmenes de una serie de productos sobre la historia de América Central y de varios números de la revista Anuario de Estudio Centroamericanos. Sin embargo, Héctor Pérez Brignoli ha señalado que, además de las fuentes antes citadas, también deben contabilizarse su experiencia docente en varias universidades de Centro América, incluyendo la Universidad Nacional y la Universidad de Costa Rica.

Women’s petitions sent through letters: Expectations about the reach of salesian assistance. (Argentina,1900-1930)

Lucía Bracamonte — 2025-02-20

The salesian congregation proposed attending the social matter of childhood, considered endangered and risky to the social order. In this context there were women who engaged relationships with salesians to receive aid and collaborate as cooperators. This article will examine the requests for asistance in personal, familial and friendly matters that were made by women through letters in the first three decades of the 20th century. The objective is to reflect on two dimensions: the expectations they had about the reach of salesian aid and, secondarily, the reception their claims had. It’s claimed that those requests were transversal to the social classes and exceeded the places were the congregation’s houses and cooperatives’s commissions. Moreso, it sustains that these women intended to extend the predetermined limits of salesian aid that revolved around the applications for admission of children and young people to schools, support in devotional matters and support for community religious and educational endeavors. In fact, they petitioned to obtain favours, social, economical and political intermediation and help in economic matters for themselves and people on their most immediate circles.