Luis Sánchez Pontón, League of Nations Correspondent in Mexico (1933-1942)

Luis Sánchez Pontón’s appointment as correspondent to the League of Nations in Mexico in July 1933 was initially intended to strengthen ties that had been late in forming due to the Mexican Revolution. Drawing on his personal and official connections, Sánchez Pontón’s work promoting the League’s interests in Mexico, where he interceded before the government on the behalf of Geneva, has largely gone unnoticed by academics. In this article, Fabián Herrera analyzes Mexico’s cooperation with the League of Nations in a new light, drawing on fresh evidence that serves to counterbalance the more researched Geneva aspect with the less-documented Mexican version of the relationship. The author talks about the facilities the Mexican authorities afforded this “representative” of the League of Nations and how they treated him, with particular emphasis on Sánchez Pontón’s duties and the type of information he furnished Geneva with on a regular basis.