EL PROTECTORADO BRITáNICO EN LA COSTA MOSQUITIA, 1837-1849

the resumption of the british protectorate in mosquitia, has been normally related with imperialist considerations, and, in parallel, to the possession of a zone where it was planned to build an inter-oceanic channel through nicaragua. in reality, these thesis pose serious difficulties to understand the origin and evolution of the mosquitia issue, as they disregard, a priori, other types of factors that, among other things, end up undermining the imperialistic vision; a number of historic and civilization related factors, without doubt, but also strategic and commercial, made great britain to revive the practice of the mosquitia protectorate.