Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel rooms last week sat the men who had masterminded the victory of Rebel leader José Figueres in Costa Rica's civil war. Most of them were Nicaraguan and Dominican exiles, and they were indifferent to the celebrations in the streets outside. They had business to do. Said soft-voiced Dominican Colonel Miguel A. Ramirez, who had been Figueres' chief of staff in the recent campaign: "This is only the beginning. There are other, harder projects ahead...
...sandbagged capital of San José, a Communist named Manuel Mora was the strong man last week. That was about the most significant result of four weeks of civil war in Costa Rica...
...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras and the Dominican Republic's Dictator Trujillo obliged. They sent pilots and mechanics to Costa Rica to keep government planes flying. To Nicaragua's Somoza, helping Costa Rica's leftwing, Communist-backed government was partly a matter of business. If Ulate won the war, Somoza stood to lose the fat profits of a business he had been running with the family of Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala...
...atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...