Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both countries, the council found, were guilty of disturbing the peace: Nicaragua for helping Costa Rican exiles launch the abortive invasion; Costa Rica for harboring the international Caribbean Legion, dedicated to the overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The two quarreling neighbors were warned to be on their best behavior; for good measure, the council ordered a five-man military mission to oversee the troubled frontier...
Behind the invasion most experienced observers still saw the face of wily Tacho Somoza. He had decided, they concluded, to do something about the Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance...
...town of La Cruz (pop. 2,000), where an advance column of attackers from Nicaragua with jeeps, mortars and automatic weapons routed the 15 customs guards in the local garrison. Figueres estimated the invasion spearhead at 800 to 1,000 men, of whom about 100 were genuine Costa Rican exiles. The rest, he charged, were Communists, mercenaries, and a hard core of picked troops from Nicaragua's Guardia National...
Whose Affair? Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza affected bland surprise: "I'm told Calderon Guardia invaded Costa Rica-but that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
...Washington, Costa Rica promptly invoked the newly ratified .Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense), and presented its case at a special meeting of the Organization of American States. Nobody needed to be told that if the Costa Rican trouble dragged on, it might easily develop into a general Caribbean conflict...