“Compared with the Pacific, far fewer German warships visited these waters, but under Stosch the most dramatic cases of gunboat pressure came in Latin America.
1871 sent a warship to Rio to support a German merchant and consul.
Winter 1871-1872, a warship visited Venezuela to encourage debt repayment.
pp118 “After Haiti reneged on a promise to pay a claim of 20,000 thalers to a Hamburg merchant, Batsch took his ships to Port-au-Prince in June 1872. In a daring nighttime operation, a landing party led by Lieutenant Friedrich Hollman stored the town, while others seized two Haitian navy paddle steamers anchored in the harbor. They suffered no casualties, and the debt was promptly paid.”
After that in 1872, German warships went to Colombia successfully encouraging payment for railroad development.
“The next great display of gunboat diplomacy in Latin American waters came in March 1878, after Germany demanded reparations of $30,000 for alleged ill treatment of the German consult in Nicaragua. When Managua refused to pay, the corvettes Leipzig, Elisabeth and Ariadne blockaded the Nicaraguan coastline on the Pacific side, the corvette Medusa on the Atlantic side. The government in Managua remained defiant until it learned that German agents had leased a number of oxcarts to carry supplies for an inland march by a large landing party. Payment of the debt and a Nicaraguan salute to the German flag brought a quick end to the crisis. The Leipzig had to double back across the Pacific to join the demonstration; the ship even had Japanese cadets on board, who were put to shore temporarily in Panama.”
“At the turn of the century, the Nicaraguan demonstration of 1878 was still being hailed as a classic example of gunboat diplomacy.”