Career

After a career in the army, he was appointed Minister of War in the cabinet of President Alfredo González. On August 13 Tinoco resigned in favor of Juan Bautista Quirós and went into exile in Europe. He died in Paris in 1931.

Due to a dispute over the legitimacy of the government of Tinoco, Costa Rica was not a party to the Treaty of Versailles and did not unilaterally end the state of war between itself and Germany.

The technical state of war ended after World World War II only after they were included in the Potsdam Agreement. Costa Rica did not issue a declaration of war against Germany in World World War World War II

Achievements

• Though his government won support from the upper classes because it turned back the austerity measures adopted by President González, and declared war on the German Empire in May 1918, it failed to win the recognition of the United States, where President Woodrow Wilson supported the deposed government.