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Costa Rica: Historia de Costa Rica. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-411-7. La Feber, Walter (1993). Inevitable Revolutions The United States in Central America. Norton Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-393-03434-9. Longley, Kyle (1997). The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of Jose ...
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 ...
Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres (University of Alabama Press, 1997). Mount, Graeme S. "Costa Rica and the Cold War, 1948–1990." Canadian Journal of History 50.2 (2015): 290–316. Olien, Michael D. "Black and part-Black populations in colonial Costa Rica: Ethnohistorical resources and ...
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, ...
1921 War of Coto (against Costa Rica) 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis. 1989 — 1990 United States invasion of Panama. December 20, 1989 Operation Acid Gambit; December 23, 1989 Operation Nifty Package
Costa Rican Civil War (1948) Costa Rica Calderón Forces People's Vanguard Party Somoza Forces: National Liberation Movement Ulatistas: Regime change. Teodoro Picado Michalski toppled; Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica (1955) Costa Rica: Calderón Forces Nicaragua: Victory. Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica; Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)