Word: otilio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...interesting and snappy resume of revolutionary Latin America. However, don't you think you simplified the situation in Costa Rica too much: "A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart." What was all the uproar in San José in 1948, of which Otilio Ulate was the principal? As I recall, there was quite a bit of bloodshed then in that "rustic democracy...
...democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate has run the republic in the way its democratic citizens like...
Near midnight President Otilio Ulate arrived to join the crowd packed into the steaming church. Archbishop Sanabria celebrated Mass; brilliantly illuminated in her golden monstrance above the altar,, the black Virgin smiled down once more on her flock. In the first joyful hours, only the archbishop and the police seemed to remember the murder and the missing gold and jewels...