Several newspapers were also created, some monthly, others weekly. One of them, The Nation, had Marcus Garvey as an editor. Regional news circulated through these papers, informing people of political issues, connections and transportation with the Antilles, and economic developments in the Caribbean. They also advertised a large quantity of products, which suggests that a large consumer society existed in Limón, the main Costa Rican port at the time. The following are examples of the types of newspapers that circulated between 1910 and 1964 in the Caribbean:  
1. Limón Weekly News
2. The Central American Express
3. The Nation
4. Boletín Anunciador
5. El Atlántico
6. El Caribe: Semanario limonense
7. El Comercio
8. El Correo del Atlántico: órgano de divulgación de la provincia de Limón
9. El Limonense
10. El Partido Nacional
11. El Pueblo Limonense
12. El Tiempo: diario de la mañana
13. Faro Limonense  
Difficult changes still lay ahead. The nineteenth century would see a surge in new theories that intended to halt the period's advances. The Jim Crow laws from the north would be followed in the south by the views of Argentinian educator Faustino Sarmiento. He promoted the idea of the 'improvement of Latin American blood' which was supposedly weakened by excessive racial mixing. These ideas were feeding off the popular eugenics movement, while European powers divvied up the African continent in 1885.  
From the end of the nineteenth century and at the time the first European capital loans were being requested to fund the construction of infrastructure, the Central American liberal elite began to devise narratives about the past. These narratives, detrimental to the region's culturally diverse heritage, were intended to magnify their European roots.