DIPLOMATIC ASYLUM GIVEN BY MEXICAN STATE TO AN ANTI-TRUJILLISTA

Abstract

This article studies the remarkable case of diplomatic asylum given by Mexican
State to a Dominican politician who suffered persecution; this asylum was given
in three different occasions in the mid-twentieth century. The research deals with
the repressive situation that was characterized under the dictatorship of Rafael
Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. It examines the benefits and the
narrow circumstances of the Convention on Latin American asylum. It emphasizes
on the Mexican Asylum policies and the Mexican officials that put them into
practice. It shows that there is a well-defined policy which is shaped by individual
appreciation, professional attitude and the political will of those who put it into
practice. With the above, this paper attempts to promote in a higher and better
scale of knowledge such an important matter as it is itself the diplomatic Mexican
foreign asylum policy shaped by the Latin American context.