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...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...
...revolution of 1948 was long past; the 18 months of junta-bossed reconstruction were over. Under Otilio Ulate, who was installed last November in the presidency to which he was elected just before the 1948 uprising, the little (pop. 813,000) Central American republic was fast winning back its old reputation for peace and progress...
...Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...