Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When gunfire began crackling in Costa Rica's southern mountains two weeks ago, Latin Americans labeled the uprising another small-scale civil war. Last week they knew better. What had started as a purely local conflict between rival political factions threatened to involve all Central America...
...support Costa Rica's leftist government, which was beaten in last month's presidential elections, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza sent fighter planes and transports and 400 well-drilled National Guardsmen to San Jose. At La Sabana airport, the Nicaraguans boarded...
...Neighbors. Meanwhile, Neighbor Guatemala took its stand behind the partisans of right-wing Editor Otilio Ulate, whose election had been annulled by Costa Rica's Congress. The rebels' commandeered TACA DC-35 made 19 trips to Guatemala for guns and ammunition. Led by a M.I.T.-trained planter [named] Jose Figueres, the Ulatistas fought so well that the government had to ask for more help...
Thirteen Chambers of Commerce and a number of railroads have seized the occasion to offer their territories as ideal locations for a further expansion of Joe's empire. So far, Honduras, Costa Rica, Belgium, Canada and Guatemala have also been heard from. Here are some examples of the correspondence...
Tacho was right about Costa Rica, Honduras and Trujilloland, but the other countries hastily denied any such intentions. At week's end, the Foreign Office lamely admitted that it had all been a mistake. Tacho had cabled New Year's greetings to the American republics and when Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay sent him best wishes in return, he had mistaken them for notes of recognition...