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Crisis in Costa Rica: The 1948 Revolution. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70147-2. Bird, Leonard (1984). Costa Rica: The Unarmed Democracy. Seven Hills Book Distributors. ISBN 978-0-900661-37-2. Fallas-Santana, Agustín (2006). "Don José Figueres Ferrer y el Desarrollo de Costa Rica". Revista Parlamentaria, Asamblea Legislativa ...
The Calderonista Invasion of Costa Rica was a small rebellion carried out in North-West Costa Rica by forces loyal to the disgruntled former president Rafael Calderón, and was supported by the Government of Nicaragua who were unhappy with the election of Jose "Pepe" Figueres Ferrer to the Costa Rican Presidency two years prior.
The First Costa Rican Republic is the name given to the historical period between the proclamation of the Republic of Costa Rica in the 1848 reformed Constitution and the official decree by then President José María Castro Madriz on 31 August 1848 and the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948 which ended with the enactment of the current 1949 Constitution on 7 November 1949 starting the Second Costa ...
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 February 1948. [1] Otilio Ulate Blanco of the National Union Party won the presidential election with 55% of the vote, although the elections were deemed fraudulent by members of the governing National Republican Party (who supported Rafael Calderón).
The Founding Junta of the Second Republic was a de facto government which existed in the Republic of Costa Rica from May 8, 1948, to November 8, 1949, with the overthrow of the constitutional president Teodoro Picado Michalski, by a group of revolutionaries headed by José Figueres Ferrer.
Other events of 1948; Timeline of Costa Rican history; Events in the year 1948 in Costa Rica. Incumbents. President: Teodoro Picado Michalski until April 20, ...
Figueres would go on to lead the opposition forces in the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War. Therein he led a successful democratic revolution against the government, abolished the army, and catapulted Boggs to the role of first lady. From that vantage point, she successfully pushed for giving Costa Rican women the right to vote. [6]
1 Costa Rica. 2 Guatemala. 3 Nicaragua. 4 El Salvador. ... 1948 Costa Rican Civil War; Guatemala ... 1961 — 1990 Nicaraguan Revolution; El Salvador