Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. León Cortés Castro, 63, fascist-minded President of Costa Rica from 1936-40; of a heart attack; in Santa Ana, Costa Rica...
...Salvador languished between democracy and dictatorship, with faked elections on the one side but freedom to criticize on the other. Only in Costa Rica, did freedom really ring...
...Central America, where a U.S. ambassadorial sneeze may start a revolt at any time, democracy and dictatorship contested across national borders. Costa Rica is a first-class democracy; El Salvador and Guatemala are struggling with the problem of embryo democracy. Nicaragua and Honduras are still outright dictatorships...
...Belgrade when the Germans strode in. While he did not spot in advance the rise of Marshal Tito, he had the sagacity to back youthful King Peter in the uprising against the discredited regent, Prince Paul. Before and after Belgrade, he represented the U.S. in South America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc.). He speaks Spanish and French, no Polish...
...Corp., and has won permits to operate in such Pan Am territory as Brazil and Venezuela. Pan Am has pretended not to notice these nips. But fortnight ago it wheeled, announced that it was setting up affiliated companies in TACA's boneyard -Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and tiny Costa Rica...