Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
...Costa Rica, a handful of the 40,000-odd Nicaraguan fugitives from the dictatorship of General Anastasio Somoza decided to go home to make a revolution. Led by General Alfredo Noguera Gomez, they set out for Nicaragua in a 30-passenger...
...Costa Rica's President Teodoro Picado sent a party of soldiers and police in pursuit, in a beach wagon. Shortly after midnight they were stopped beyond the village of Naranjo by a road block. They got out and reconnoitered. The revolutionists opened fire. Score: one pursuer killed, three wounded...
Costa Ricans thanked the petulance of a neighboring dictator for an elegant revision of the national diet. It used to consist chiefly of beef. But Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza changed that. Wounded by Costa Rica's hospitality to his political enemies, he closed the southern frontier to the export of cattle. His Costa Rican neighbors thereupon turned to sea turtle -a delicacy formerly earmarked for gourmets...
Senator Reynolds: "Certainly. . . . And I rather imagine that the Senator had in mind the acquisition of Cocos Island, which is owned by Costa Rica...