Latin America and the League of Nations

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To guarantee Latin American representatives in the Assembly and Council, an unofficial bloc was established early on. This movement, in turn led to the creation of a special Latin American Liaison Bureau. Latin American delegates emphasized their contributions and hopes for world peace which eventually would anticipate their actions in the United Nations.

The Latin American nations became increasingly disillusioned with the League in the 1920s. This was partly due to the failure of the United States to join the League, and partly because the major powers in the League paid little attention to Latin America's problems. The League did have some role in two conflicts in South America in the 1930s: the

While Latin American delegates were frequently frustrated with the political institutions of the League, they participated avidly in the so-called "technical" bodies. In the field of intellectual cooperation, for instance, they introduced a number of initiatives – such as translation into French of major Latin American literary works, or the elaboration of a history of the Americas – that became hallmarks of cultural internationalism.[1] Also in the field of public health and nutrition there were productive exchanges between Geneva and Latin American actors.^[2]

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