Word: moraes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major objective of Central American exiles, who helped Rebel Leader José Figueres to victory in Costa Rica, was to: 1. Induce Manuel Mora to return...
...Move. Tacho toyed with the idea of a blitz invasion of Costa Rica. But he could hardly tag this a crusade against Communism when Costa Rica's No. 1 Communist, Manuel Mora, had just been run out of the country...
President Picado, a feckless figurehead in a bright red shirt, was cooped up in the red-roofed Casa Presidencial. It was smart, stocky, 39-year-old Manuel Mora, leader of the Communist Vanguardia Popular, who ran things from the Bella Vista fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring...
During the week, Mora visited the Casa Presidencial to discuss strategy with Picado and Calderón, rode to La Sabana airport to inspect supplies arriving from Nicaragua, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, made speeches all over town. But each day he included a visit to the same small cottage on the edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra...
...Mora, the moody, humorless son of a carpenter, has fought all his life. He had to struggle to get his lawyer's education. Since 1932, he has fought in Congress for a Communist program. Now, in the civil war, he has his chance to put it over. To do so, he is prepared to turn the rebellion into a class war. "The people must seal their social gains with blood," he cried last week. "I will not compromise or throw away anything for which I have fought for 25 years...