Oral history interview with Joseph John Jova, 1978

Biographical Note

Diplomat

Scope and Contents

Family background; United Fruit Company farm overseer, Guatemala, 1938-41; World War II Navy experiences; Foreign Service diplomatic assignments in Iraq, Morocco, Portugal, Chile; functions of an ambassador and his wife; Chilean politics during Kennedy administration; United States Ambassador to Honduras, 1965-69; economic and social issues, El Salvador-Honduras Soccer War, 1969; Ambassador to Organization of American States: schism in Roman Catholic clergy, territorial and trade disputes, Castro's Cuba; Ambassador to Mexico, 1974-77: drug traffic, prisoner exchange, Henry Kissinger and Latin American relations; impressions of Luis Echeverria, other Mexican officials

Subjects

• Ambassadors--United States--Interviews.
• Diplomacy--United States.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Jova, Joseph John, 1916---Interviews.
• Latin America--Politics and government.
• Morris, Berenice, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States. Dept. of State.
• World War, 1939-1945.