Una diplomacia defensiva: la política exterior española en el Caribe y el golfo de México entre 1865 y 1878

The Spanish foreign policy in the Caribbean during the middle of nineteenth century was directed to the construction of several counterbalances that diminished the United States pressure against Cuba. The failure of the Spanish projects in Mexico and Dominican Republic during the reign of Elizabeth II and the outbreak of Cuban crisis had influence in the Spanish foreign policy during the Sexenio and the Restauración and converted to the Caribbean in a vital zone for the Spanish diplomacy. This situation moved to Spain to try to normalize his diplomatic relations with the Hispanic American states which, from their independence, had suffered the agressive or indifferent attitude from the old colonial metropolis