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Calderón claimed that this result had been obtained by fraud and petitioned Congress, where the coalition of his own party and the Popular Vanguard Party held a majority, to void the results and call for a new election. When Congress granted this request, the country erupted in chaos, as both sides accused the other of vote tampering and
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The annulment of the election results in 1948 and the killing of Valverde on the same day seemed to give Figueres the evidence that he needed that the government had no intention of peacefully accepting the popular will, thus justifying a violent insurrection. On March 11, Figueres made the call that
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After a highly contentious electoral process plagued by violence and irregularities concluded on February 8, 1948, the independent electoral tribunal, by a split vote of 2 to 1, declared that opposition candidate Otilio Ulate of the National Union Party, had been elected president. The ruling party's
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The day after the fall of Cartago, Picado—low on supplies and without any other source of support—sent a letter to Mora and Calderón stating that "the attempt to hold San José would be futile and catastrophic." Mora, facing the reality that now the United States was ready to act against him as well,
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Picado's long-time political ally, Manuel Mora of the communist Popular Vanguard Party, had no intention of negotiating with Figueres. Mora's forces had sealed themselves up inside the capital of San José, and were determined not to capitulate as quickly as Picado. As the target of many of Figueres'
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intelligentsia which sought to strengthen the new welfare state while ensuring democratic transparency. After their victory this alliance quickly fell apart. The right-wing faction, led by the junta's Minister of Public Safety, Édgar Cardona, attempted to overthrow Figueres and was excluded from the
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that stalled commerce in Costa Rica for seven days. Pro-Calderón and communist demonstrators began to sack businesses that participated in the strike; Picado's government intimidated participating merchants and professionals and threatened workers with dismissal and military service. By the end of
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Costa Rican politics have traditionally been guided by personal allegiances far more than by ideological consistency, and the Civil War of 1948 provides a striking example of this. Calderón had been elected president in 1940 as the candidate of the right, closely allied with the
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The Picado administration resorted several times to military force to keep the peace, and pro-Calderón elements within the military institution often become involved in street violence, which helped to sully the image of the military in the minds of the people. The Costa Rican
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on April 12, 1942, after he strongly criticized the Calderón regime during a radio broadcast. Figueres returned to Costa Rica after the election of Picado. Before the elections of 1948, Figueres had already been planning for a war. Unlike Ulate, former president
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was and Figueres had been only moments before. Shots rang out, and Valverde fell dead on his doorstep. Ulate escaped but was later captured and imprisoned, all of which helped to paint an especially distasteful image of the military.
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The rebel forces led by Figueres were a mix of anti-communist right-wingers, economically conservative elements weary of the welfare state (represented by the winner of the 1948 election himself, Otilio Ulate), and a
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This lack of ideological consistency is further underscored by the fact that during the Civil War, the government forces, despite being allied to the Costa Rican communists, enjoyed the support of right-wing
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On April 19, Picado and Father Benjamín Núñez, an eminent labor leader within Costa Rica, signed the so-called Pact of the Mexican Embassy, ending the armed uprising. Picado resigned the next day, leaving
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Calderón returned as the ruling party's candidate for the election of 1948 and there were widespread fears that the government would intervene to ensure his triumph against his main opponent, journalist
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brought in the arms and military leaders he needed for a successful military campaign. On March 12, his National Liberation Army exchanged fire with government forces, and the war began.
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On the day that the government annulled the elections, police surrounded the home of Dr. Carlos Luis Valverde, the acting campaign manager for Union National, where
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criticisms about Costa Rica, Mora and his party were worried that a Figueres-led takeover might well lead to their expulsion from politics.
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Calderón then created a different political base by allying himself with the Costa Rican communists (the Popular Vanguard Party), led by
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government thereafter. Figueres himself became closely identified with the social democratic faction, which later dominated his own
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In the 1940s, the Costa Rican political scene came to be dominated by Rafael Ángel Calderón, a medical doctor who served as
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Rifle and helmet used during the Costa Rican civil war of 1948. Temporary exhibition in the National Museum of Costa Rica.
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The uprising was resisted by the small, ill-equipped Costa Rican army and, more significantly, by the militias of the
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After the war, Figueres toppled the army and ruled the country for 18 months as head of a provisional government
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Costa Rica has since experienced some riots, but no political violence reaching the severity of the civil war.
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the strike, police and military forces patrolled the streets, and San José appeared as if under siege.
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Monument in memory of those who died in the Civil War of 1948, located in Ernesto Zumbado park in
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and against Nicaraguan soldiers who had been sent by Somoza to help the government retain power.
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The National Liberation Army, as the rebel army called itself, slowly worked their way up the
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The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of Jose Figueres
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as interim president. Picado and former president Calderón Guardia went into exile in
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Disgust with the government's violent reprisals against the opposition led to the
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from 1940 to 1944. The Constitution forbade consecutive reelection, so for the
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community in Costa Rica, caused that elite to withdraw its support for him.
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This article is about the civil war of 1948. For the civil war of 1823, see
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took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948. The conflict followed the
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and with the business elite, but his enthusiastic support for the
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Index

Ochomogo War
League War
Cold War

Santa María de Dota
Costa Rica
Teodoro Picado Michalski
provisional government
José Figueres Ferrer
Costa Rican military abolished
Constitutional assembly is elected
A new Constitution is created and enacted
Otilio Ulate
National Liberation Army
Ulatista Forces
Caribbean Legion
Guatemala
United States
Government of Costa Rica
Calderon forces
People's Vanguard Party
Nicaraguan National Guard
José Figueres Ferrer
Otilio Ulate Blanco
Teodoro Picado Michalski
Rafael Calderón
Manuel Mora
Anastasio Somoza
a series
History of Costa Rica

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