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The Exposición Centroamericana (Central American Expo) was an industrial and cultural exposition that took place in Guatemala in 1897 and which was approved on 8 March 1894 by the National Assembly by Decree 253 by a suggestion made by president general José María Reina Barrios, at a time when both coffee – only Guatemalan export at the time- and silver international prices were at an all-time high. Its main goal was to showcase the Interoceanic railroad between Iztapa on the Pacific coast and Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic, a project that was well ahead by January 1897, but that was left unfinished when Guatemala went into a deep crisis due to both coffee and silver international prices plummeting after the government had built numerous public buildings and palaces in Guatemala City, simu

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  • Exposición Centroamericana (en)
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  • The Exposición Centroamericana (Central American Expo) was an industrial and cultural exposition that took place in Guatemala in 1897 and which was approved on 8 March 1894 by the National Assembly by Decree 253 by a suggestion made by president general José María Reina Barrios, at a time when both coffee – only Guatemalan export at the time- and silver international prices were at an all-time high. Its main goal was to showcase the Interoceanic railroad between Iztapa on the Pacific coast and Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic, a project that was well ahead by January 1897, but that was left unfinished when Guatemala went into a deep crisis due to both coffee and silver international prices plummeting after the government had built numerous public buildings and palaces in Guatemala City, simu (en)
  • La Exposición Centroamericana fue una feria industrial y cultural que se realizó en Guatemala en 1897 y que fue aprobada el 8 de marzo de 1894 por la Asamblea Nacional (Decreto 253) tras la sugerencia hecha por el presidente general José María Reina Barrios. Tuvo como objetivo primordial la presentación del Ferrocarril interoceánico entre el puerto de Iztapa en la costa del Pacífico y el de Puerto Barrios en la costa del Atlántico, construcciones que estaban muy avanzadas a inicios de 1897, pero que quedaron inconclusas porque Guatemala entró en una profunda crisis derivada de la caída del precio internacional del café, y de la construcción de numerosos edificios y monumentos públicos -incluidos los salones de la Exposición- en la Ciudad de Guatemala, los cuales fueron ejecutados simultáne (es)
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  • Central American Expo (en)
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