Crisis in Costa Rica
Bell, John Patrick![Crisis in Costa Rica](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/168/16864429/CHSBZCOP0316864429.jpg)
The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940-1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power. In the 1940s the Communists, the Social Democrats (forerunners of the National Liberation Party...