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...head of a junta, and in the next 18 months he dissolved the army, expanded social-welfare programs, gave women the vote and nationalized the banks. Then, by prior agreement, he stepped aside in favor of the man whose election had led to the attempted coup in 1948, Otilio Ulate. Four years later, Figueres was elected to a presidential term of his own. In 1958, he retired to his ranch-style home near San Jose, where he still lives with his blonde U.S.-born second wife Karen and their four children...
After being rescued from the abandoned truck - and then arrested - Otilio Pantoja, 31, a ranch hand with five children, told of painstakingly saving enough pesos to pay off a smuggler. With others, he journeyed to Piedras Negras opposite Eagle Pass, Texas. "Night came," he recounted later. "We took all our clothes, rolled them in a bundle so they wouldn't get wet, then waded across the river naked, holding our clothes over our heads." The wetbacks met "The Man" in a thicket. He took their money, then locked them in the truck. After 15 minutes on the road...
...that time, Otilio Ulate, a conservative newspaper publisher, was a clear winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political...
Last week the grandes finqueros really had something to worry about. Figueres was elected President of Costa Rica by a 2 to 1 vote over his conservative opponent. Next November he will take over the presidency from Otilio Ulate and, barring death or revolution, will have four years to turn his plans into reality...
...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 to deny the legally elected Otilio Ulate the presidency, Figueres led a motley band of students, clerks and farm workers, many of them armed with .22 sporting rifles, to victory over the government forces. Then he took control himself for 18 months before he decided it was safe to turn the presidency over to Ulate...