Mid-Theme Visit: Country Links - Belize and Costa Rica

 

Mid-Theme Visit: Country Links

Belize and Costa Rica

 

Hello, and I hope you will enjoy this relaxing read. To make things interesting, you will witness mid-theme visits. These will entail small articles between articles in themes such as marking history.

Many people have obligations they need time for. However, people do fit in time for reading, and you can read shorter articles here during commuting, or over your lunchbreak or whenever. It would be a shame for readers to miss out, therefore I will prevent this.

For one of these, you can read the series called country links. This will focus on connectivity. With history going back so far and with so much of the world to cover, with all the changes and interactions between different areas, lots of countries have connections to each other. These include random countries you might never have expected.

But my aim is to capture the obscure past.

To start, let us explore the hidden connection between Belize and Costa Rica.

Colonial Focus

The connection between Belize and Costa Rica involves the Americas under the Spanish empire.

With Spanish colonies beginning in 1496 with Santo Domingo, or Hispaniola, in the modern Dominican Republic, more activity was inevitable. Christian missions were one such activity, with individuals sent to convert indigenous inhabitants to aid in achieving global presence.

Missions began in 1523 with Franciscans in Mexico, and more of course would follow and spread soon. Dominicans were one of these groups, focusing on the Caribbean and with Belize in their vicinity. It was missionaries such as these, who in 1550 came to the region that is now Belize, where they based themselves in modern Verapaz Bay in the south, which then was Amatique Bay.

In this region, they were successful in converting many indigenous people, however, the area was deprived of crucial colonial goods. Gold, which aided the New Spanish economy, was scarce. Other members of the Mayan indigenous populace were also hostile towards the Spanish, therefore the standard process of subordinating indigenous people for slave labour was impractical. There were little resources to work on any way. Due to this, Spaniards would need to look elsewhere. Enter – Costa Rica

Providing salvation 11 years later, Costa Rica, in 1561 was founded, and this area was rich with cocoa beans! This amazing good was of course crucial to chocolate-making. With a rising sweet tooth amongst wealthy people, though it would be 80 years until this area of the confectionery industry exploded, starting early is always best, proving to be brown gold itself!

It is important to remember that the connection here between the countries is that the financial failure of the Spanish in Belize was a cause of Costa Rican discovery.

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