[1][2][3] Joseph Jova was born in Browston, five miles north of Newburgh, New York, to a prominent European-Caribbean family.

His grandfather was a major landowner in colonial Cuba and his grandmother from a New York French family involved in the sugar industry, and later became a prominent brick manufacturer.

In addition to southern Iraq, the small consulate also handled affairs with Kuwait, where the U.S. had not opened an embassy as Britain considered it within their sphere of influence.

This resulted in a touristic boycott of the American Jewish community against Mexico, which made visible internal and external conflicts of Mexican politics.

This was received as a direct attack to the United States, as Jova told to the Interior Minister of Mexico: "The United States is hurt and disappointed with the harmful declarations of President Luis Echeverría, specially because of Mexican attitudes in the international sphere, specially concerning Anti-Zionism and Corea".