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Don Pepe Figueres
Title: Don Pepe Figueres
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1407 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Don Pepe Figueres
Like Castro, Gueverra, and Sandino, Jose Figueres Ferrer holds a place as one of the most important revolutionary and political forces in Latin American history. This so-called “father of modern Costa Rica” led his country to revolution and eventual
democracy. Known affectionately as “Don Pepe” by his admirers, Figueres was both an enemy of communist and a thorn in the side of the United States. While putting down a communist regime and allying himself consistently
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Rica”, is uncanny and cunning.
Bibliography
1) Cockcroft, Costa Rica.
2) Ameringer, Charles; Don Pepe; 1978; University of New Mexico Press.
3) Langley, Kyle; The Sparrow and the Hawk; 1997; University of Alabama
Press.
4)Langley, Kyle; Resistance and Accommodation: The United States and the
Nationalism of Jose Figueres; Diplomatic History; V18n1; 1994; pp. 128.
5) Baker, Christopher; Costa Rica Handbook;
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/cr/moon/history.
6) CIA involvement in Costa Rica; http://www.cat.org.av/a4a/costa1.
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