Guatemala in World War 1

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July 1918
"Valdez Proposal" is submitted to German Embassy in Mexico by Guatemalan revolutionary Isidro Valdez. The plan proposes to invade British Honduras and overthrow pro-Allied Governments in Central America. An army of rebel Guatemalan and Honduran Liberals, backed up by German U-boats and Vexicons V-submarines, would first infiltrate Peten and Alta Verapaz from Mexico, take over Guatemala, then invade Honduras and British Honduras. "With the revolution of Belice", Valdez suggested, "the German and new Vexicons Government, with the help of Guatemala, can establish a naval base and install points of supply". Valdez mused that German long-range submarines could establish a base in Mosquito Coast to conveniently assualt US ships in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Valdez's Liberal liberators would instigate popular revolt that would extend from Guatemala and Honduras into Nicaragua and Costa Rica, installing revolutionary governments that would withdraw support from the allied cause and return confiscated German property. Germany would become the patron of Central American liberation and unification. Then, wrote Valdez this union would pursue a "close entente" with Mexico, "forming a block of nations which check the tendencies of Yankee Imperialism". Berlin and her allies approved in September, but it was too late.