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...fall of El Salvador's Martinez opened the second breach in the line of Central American dictators. The first breach was an old one-democratic Costa Rica, where a new President peacefully took office last week. No army puppet, no revolutionist, President Teodoro Picado had won a fair election...
Otherwise the outside world intruded only when planes brought in mail pouches, about every other day, and once when Prime Minister Curtin of Australia, President Picado of Costa Rica, their wives and Mrs. Roosevelt flew in for lunch and the afternoon. Lieut. Commander Franklin Roosevelt Jr. dropped by for dinner one evening. The President kept paper work to a minimum, but even so had to sign a lot of papers-including commissions for notaries public in the District of Columbia...
Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...
Storm center is the Vanguardia, a leftist party behind Picado. Formerly Communist, it changed its name and some of its precepts to win non-Communist support. Chief catch was Catholic Archbishop Victor Sanabria, who approved the party's objectives and was promptly denounced as a Communist. Said Archbishop Sanabria: "The reactionaries all call me a Communist because I open my arms to the poor. For these people, Christ would be a Communist...