'Forever' lasted under a yearSourced
A federation called itself indissoluble, then dissolved within ten months.
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras formed the Federation of Central America in April 1921. Its constitution called it perpetual and indissoluble, but after political turmoil in Guatemala, it dissolved in January 1922.
A promise on paper could not hold the states together.
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