Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elected President by the greatest popular vote ever received in his country, Jose Figueres plans to remodel Costa Rica into...
...nongovernmental organization), is some 173 million-just about the same as the U.S. and Canada together. But if present growth rates should continue until the year 2000, Latin America and the West Indies would top the U.S. plus Canada by 550 million to 250 million. Fastest-growing Latin country: Costa Rica, which adds 3.2% a year, slowest, Argentina, with 1.6% (v. the U.S., with...
Figueres did not spell out his intentions toward the United Fruit Co., but he is determined to make the company cut Costa Rica in for a bigger share of its profits or else pull...
Figueres, educated at M.I.T. and recently divorced from an American wife, is something of a phenomenon in Costa Rica. After college, he bought a barren finca in Cartago which he called La Lucha Sin Fin (Struggle Without End), in recognition of the farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried...
Last week, flushed with the greatest popular vote ever received by a Costa Rican politician, Pepe Figueres was talking softly. He pledged that U.S. investment capital would find an "environment of safety and honesty" in Costa Rica. "There is one thing I want to make clear: this is going to be a pro-United States government. That is definite...