Word: teodoro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of El Salvador's Martinez opened the second breach in the line of Central American dictators. The first breach was an old one-democratic Costa Rica, where a new President peacefully took office last week. No army puppet, no revolutionist, President Teodoro Picado had won a fair election...
Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...