Word: pepe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What bothers many Costa Ricans most is that Vesco seems to have invested in their popular President as well as their economy. Diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) José Figueres, 66, known affectionately as "Don Pepe," is something of a national hero. In 1948, he successfully led a ragtag 700-man force against Communist revolutionaries and military reactionaries who were trying to destroy Costa Rica's democratic system. Don Pepe, who was elected to his second nonconsecutive presidential term in 1970, concedes that some of his business investments have gone sour in recent years. He readily acknowledges that...
...some of the country's most powerful politicians. According to the SEC, one of the I.O.S. funds, IIT, has made an unsecured loan of $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a firm founded and still partly owned by Costa Rican President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. Says Figueres: "Vesco's investments here are very secure and creative. I can't understand the fuss." I.O.S.'s Fund of Funds allegedly plowed about $60 million into Interamerican Capital, a Costa Rican investment firm that could well serve as a vehicle in securing for Vesco...
Before the performance begins, Señor Don Pepe Hernandez, a third-rate impresario who bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
These people do not exist, of course, but Don Pepe's uncle, who manages a Coca-Cola bottling plant, has lent him the money to stage an elaborate bluff. The "parade of stars" consists of Don Pepe's nephew, cousin, stepdaughter and daughter. What follows is a show biz nightmare of ineptitude - jugglers who drop their props, dancers who bump into each other and acrobats who cannot hold each other up. The decrepit old black blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps...
...oldest son of the President who created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named in the complaint, are Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Spanish Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre, and Donald A. Nixon, 26-year-old nephew of the President...