Manuel Y. de Negri
Manuel Y. de Negri briefly headed Mexico's Washington mission as chargé d'affaires from March to September 1921. His later postings took him to Europe and Central America. In Rome in April 1933, he prepared a report for the Foreign Ministry on the International Institute of Educational Cinematography, an organization linked to the League of Nations' cultural work. 1, 2
As minister in El Salvador, he reported on the regional ambitions of Guatemalan president Jorge Ubico. In a 1935 conversation with Salvadoran president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, de Negri discussed proposals for Central American union and Guatemala's acquisition of military aircraft and weapons. He left the Salvadoran post in 1937 for an assignment in Uruguay. 3
He later became ambassador in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican Academy of the Language elected him an honorary member in 1951, recording his fuller name as Manuel Y. de Negri Iberri. 4
Washington Appointments
- Mexico — Chargé d’affaires, 1921–1921
Sources
- Representantes mexicanos ante los Estados Unidos de América
PDF p.5, Manuel Y. de Negri row
- México y el Instituto Internacional de Cinematografía Educativa, 1927–1937
Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México 36 (2008), notes 18 and 118
- La compleja tarea de conceder asilo político en Centroamérica: los diplomáticos mexicanos y la reelección presidencial de 1939 en El Salvador
Volume 71 (2026), PDF pp.10 and 19, printed pp.96 and 105
- Memoria de la Academia Costarricense de la Lengua
PDF p.70, printed p.60: De Negri Iberri, Manuel Y.
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