The Mexican Embassy and the battle over asylum in Trujillo’s Dominican Republic, l946–1954
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Between 1945 and 1954, a series of conflictive asylum cases unfolded in the Mexican Embassy in Santo Domingo. An examination of Foreign Ministry records from the era reveals a complex situation, in which different players sought to harness diplomatic asylum for their own purposes. Dominican asylum seekers, Mexican representatives and the Trujillo dictatorship all struggled to define the parameters of a practice that was integral to the region’s politics. This article details two particularly challenging cases that confronted Mexican officials during this period, that of Dominican labor leader Mauricio Báez and his four brothers and a second case involving Tomás Reyes Cerda, who spent nineteen months confined to the Mexican Embassy. The two cases highlight the competing interests that drove the Mexican and Dominican governments: as Mexico defended an open and generous application of asylum that was key to its international image, the Trujillo regime was determined to stop an exodus of Dominicans who could undermine its own reputation abroad. Their decade-long struggle over the intricacies of diplomatic asylum not only shaped Latin American international law, but it also raised questions about the unfettered right of states to persecute their own citizens.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".