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El Espíritu Del 48 es el testimonio del ex-Presidente de la Re publica y del Partido Liberación Nacional don José Figueres Ferrer, sobre las causes, propósitos y desarrollo de lo que el declaro Guerra de Liberación Nacional, librada desde marzo hasta abril de 1948. Don Pepe - como siempre se le ha conocido popularmente -, relata desde la niñez, su preparación para dirigir esa gesta libertaria. Hace un recuento de las corrientes políticas del país, desde la segunda década de este siglo, con especial referencia a la dictadura de los hermanos Tinoco (1917-19). Describe las circunstancias que, bajo el régimen del doctor Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, aliado a los comunistas, llevaron al pueblo a luchar por la reivindicación del libre sufragio. Describe el proceso de la Guerra Civil, y ademas, presenta las orientaciones políticas que deberían presidir el desarrollo del país para lo que el llamo la Segunda República.
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José Figuéres was born in San Ramon on September 25, 1906, soon after his parents' arrival from Spain. Figueres was the eldest of the four children of a Catalan doctor and his wife, a teacher, who had recently immigrated from Catalonia to San Ramón in west-central Costa Rica.
He received most of his education in Costa Rica but also studied in the United States, as an unmatriculated student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Upon his return home Figuéres took over a small plantation in the mountains and during the 1930s devoted most of his attention to converting it into a modern enterprise. He gained some local fame for the progressive manner in which he treated his employees.
Figuéres gained sudden national fame when he bought radio time to denounce a riot on July 4, 1942, and the government of President Rafael Calderon Guardia as encouraging violence by Communists to divert attention from its own failures. In the middle of his talk he was arrested and was subsequently deported to Mexico.
Upon his return in 1944 Figuéres helped to organize the campaign of Leon Cortes, opposition candidate in the 1944 presidential election. The opposition claimed that government nominee Teodoro Picado won by fraud and insisted on special guarantees for the presidential poll of 1948. Figuéres and his colleagues, organized in the Social Democratic party, supported Otilio Ulate Blanco against former president Calderon Guardia, the government's nominee.
First Presidency When Congress negated Ulate's victory, Figuéres started a successful revolt and became president of the provisional government. The Junta Fundidora de la Segunda República (Founding Junta of the Second Republic), the government headed by Figuéres, enacted a number of reforms. It nationalized all banks and set up a government electric power company and a housing institute.
The principal innovation of the second Figuéres government was a new agreement with the United Fruit Company, the major exporter of the country's bananas, providing for a much larger return to the government from the company's profits. The administration also carried out ambitious public housing and electrification programs.
Figuéres's party did not win the next election because of a split in its ranks. However, in 1962 Liberación Nacional returned to power under President Francisco Orlich, a boyhood friend of Figuéres. PLN lost again at the end of Orlich's administration in 1966. During these years Figuéres devoted most of his attention to private business affairs, although he remained a major figure in the PLN.
He also traveled widely in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, and was again nominated for president by the PLN for the election of March 1970, which he won. Figuéres had an importance which transcended his small country.
Figuéres died in 1990 knowing that to many Costa Ricans he was a hero. He has been credited with bringing democracy to his country.
Figueres was one of the first Latin American presidents to open diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and to advocate the return of Fidel Castro’s Cuba into regular membership of the OAS. After leaving the presidency, he ardently supported the cause of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua against the Somoza dynasty. The Republic of China awarded him the "Shining Star" in 1955.
(El Espíritu Del 48 es el testimonio del ex-Presidente de ...)
During the conservative Ulate regime, Figuéres organized the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN; National Liberation Party).
He has been credited with bringing democracy to his country. In November 1949 it turned the government over to Otilio Ulate, victor in the 1948 election. During the conservative Ulate regime, Figuéres organized the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN; National Liberation Party). He was the PLN candidate in the 1953 presidential election and was overwhelmingly elected.
He was a major spokesman for a broad range of Latin American public opinion and in many speeches and articles laid particular stress on the importance of the highly industrialized countries paying "just" prices for the foodstuffs and raw materials purchased from the underdeveloped nations as a possible substitute for economic aid.
Quotations:
Mr. Figueres himself acknowledged in 1981 that he had received help from the Central Intelligence Agency. "At the time, I was conspiring against the Latin American dictatorships and wanted help from the United States", he recalled. "I was a good friend of Allen Dulles. "
In an interview in 1981, Figueres said that Vesco had "committed many stupidities" but added: "I have always defended asylum and would protect him again if I could because I never abandon my friends. The only thing that pains me is that some friends thought I personally benefitted from Vesco. "
Figueres married Henrietta Boggs of Alabama in 1942. They had two children, Muni and José Martí, before the marriage ended in divorce in 1952. He later married Karen Olsen Beck of New York. They had four children, José María, Karen Christiana, Mariano and Kirsten. His wife was a member of the country's Legislative Assembly.
His son, José María Figueres, also served as president from 1994 to 1998. His daughter, Muni Figueres Boggs, is the current Ambassador from Costa Rica to the United States. His other daughter, Christiana Figueres, is a Costa Rican diplomat who served from 2010 to 2016 as the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and is widely considered to be the architect of the Paris Agreement.
