Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angry Panamanians denounced the police tactics. Almost nightly, cops tangled with citizens. The Panamá-América called for a general strike against the "police state." Merchants shut their shops, workers walked out on their jobs. Then the Supreme Court decided to review the constitutionality of the Chiari regime...
Pint-sized José Figueres once described himself as "a literary socialist farmer with a kind of Atlantic Monthly mind." Thrust into politics as President of Costa Rica's ruling junta, he has never been quite able to decide whether to chuck politics for the bookish quiet of his coffee finca (farm), or to stay on in San José to finish the uphill fight for his program of "neo-liberalism."* Last week Pepe Figueres made his choice...
Faced with steadily mounting opposition from the followers of President-elect Otilio Ulate, who have forgotten that Figueres won last year's civil war for them, he went to the people in a radio broadcast. "Costa Rica," he declared, "must not be at the mercy of a social clique. It must not be committed to a feudal system with a puppet congress manipulated for political purposes by a reactionary group...
Figueres was too quick for him. Pulling out of his rambling frame palace, he rushed to grab the most commanding site in town, the five-story Gran Hotel Costa Rica, then set up headquarters in the Pacific Railway station. Isolating the forts, he laid siege to the troops inside. Some rebels quickly deserted. Thereupon Figueres attacked and Cardona immediately surrendered...
...When foreign troops attacked Costa Rica a week after the Army had been dissolved, Costa Rica called on the Organization of American States, and said the invaders were trained...