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	AllRefer.com - Figueres, Spain & Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Traditionally a fortified city because of its strategic location, it is now an important communications center.
		In the Spanish civil war Figueres served briefly as the seat of the Loyalist government.
		Salvador DalI was born in Figueres, and designed the Teatre-Museu DalI, where he is buried.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FigueresSp.html (186 words)

	Costa Rica - The Civil War of 1948
		Figueres and his followers accused the Calderon government of fraud and corruption, thus justifying military action as the only possibility to achieve power.
		Figueres signed an agreement with other Latin American countries, in which his army was to receive support in exchange for allowing Costa Rica to become a platform for destroying dictatorships in the area.
		Figueres didn't honor his side of the agreement, since he persecuted his enemies, closed down the Communist Party, and took over several properties that belonged to Calderon and his followers.
	www.infocostarica.com /history/1948.html (640 words)

	Truman Library - Jose Figueres Ferrer Oral History Interview
		FIGUERES: Yes, the difficulties were political in the sense that there's a great deal of government by public opinion in the U.S.; I know because I've been there.
		FIGUERES: Well, we were very fortunate in the history of international assistance between the United States and Costa Rica, as in many other things historical.
		FIGUERES: I would say that there are, as you say, three main ways or channels for injecting savings or resources of money into a new economy like this.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/ferrerjf.htm (6112 words)

	AllRefer.com - JosE Figueres Ferrer (Costa Rican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		JosE Figueres Ferrer[hOsA´ fEgA´rAs fAr-rAr´] Pronunciation Key, 1906–90, president of Costa Rica (1948–49, 1953–58, 1970–74).
		He rose to prominence as an outspoken critic of President CalderOn Guardia in 1942 and was exiled to Mexico (1942–44).
		His son, JosE MarIa Figueres Olsen[Ol´sAn] Pronunciation Key, 1954–, was president of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Figueres.html (244 words)

	Visit Figueres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres is situated at the north-eastern end of Catalonia.
		Located at the centre of an extensive river basin, Figueres is the capital of Alt Empordà; county and acts as the economic-commercial, social and cultural centre of the county.
		And beside the train station is the bus station, which is a stopping place on international lines and a point of arrival and departure for buses serving the Catalan and county routes.
	www.ddgi.es /figueres/angles/vis-arribar-hi.html (255 words)

	Costa Rica and the 1948 Revolution
		Figueres was able to combine the political alignment of Calderón and Mora of 1942 with the anti-Communist sentiments of the United States, raising concerns in the United States that Communism was making its move on Costa Rica.
		Once Figueres' forces began their revolt after the annulment of the 1948 presidential elections, the US had positioned themselves to deny any support of the weakened Picado government and, if not aid, at least acquiesce to Figueres and his supporters.
		Figueres continued to improve on the situation of the working classes, modifying the existing labor laws to a point where they could be properly implemented.
	www.elespiritudel48.org /docu/h_i01.htm (3343 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Depor edges past Figueres to reach Cup final - Wednesday January 30, 2002 07:25 PM
		Figueres gained a consolation goal when Piti converted from the spot in injury-time after the referee awarded a controversial penalty against Deportivo defender Cesar.
		Figueres coach Pere Gratacos said he was proud of his team for becoming the first ever third division side to reach the semifinals of the Cup.
		Figueres, who eliminated both Barcelona and Osasuna in their historic run to the semis, went close with shots from midfielders Arnau and Algar and were certainly not overawed by their more illustrious opponents.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/01/30/spain_rdp (549 words)

	Figueres on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Salvador Dalí; was born in Figueres, and designed the Teatre-Museu Dalí, where he is buried.
		José María Figueres, hijo del caudillo que transformó Costa Rica
		Figueres ausente en Congreso costarricense para explicar pago de Alcatel
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FigueresS1p.asp (416 words)

	José María Figueres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres was General Manager of Fibers of Central America from 1979 to 1984 and Vice-President of the Railway Institute of Costa Rica (Incofer) from 1987 to 1988.
		Figueres strengthened the relationship of Costa Rica with the United States and signed the bilateral Free Trade Agreement with Mexico in 1994, making Costa Rica the first Central American State linked with the North America Free Trade Agreement.
		Figueres is the recipient of numerous international honors, including He is the author of many books, including The Costa Rican banking system (1992), One election, two different countries (1993), The future begins now (1993), On the path to sustainable development (1995), and Testimony of a time of changes (1996).
	www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=126 (717 words)

	Figueres in Spain
		Figueres nestles in the green fertile inland of the Costa Brava.
		The town is famous for the great quantities of fruit and vegetables grown in the surrounding countryside, but it is even more reknowned as the birthplace of Salvador Dali.
		Born in Figueres in 1904, he was very attached to his home town and also had a house in the neaby coastal Cadaques.
	www.absoluteaxarquia.com /areas/figueres.html (259 words)

	Visit Figueres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres cuisine combines the most authentic Alt Empordà; gastronomic tradition (from platillos of grandma’s meat to the Costa Brava fish dishes), with a subtle and daring culinary conception of its own that has brought the city an example of top-class contemporary restauranteering, lauded by the region’s most prestigious authors.
		Finally, the surprising and bold cooking of this land has amazed the culinary world with combinations that seem impossible on the face of it, such as chicken and rabbit with lobster or prawns, cuttlefish with meatballs or lobster civet, which among many other culinary adventures stimulate the senses and the imagination of diners.
		The cuisine of Figueres and county has over the last few years seen the emergence of new company in the form of wines and caves with the Empordà-Costa Brava appellation.
	www.ddgi.es /figueres/angles/vis-restauracio.html (318 words)

	President José María Figueres
		The World Ecology Award was presented to President José María Figueres on Saturday, June 15 1996 at a ceremony held at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
		José María Figueres was born into a family with undeniable political tradition, his father, José María Figueres Ferrer was three times President of Costa Rica and a person who is still remembered with love and admiration by many.
		José María Figueres was born on December 24, 1954.
	www.umsl.edu /~biology/icte/WEArecipients/figueras.html (496 words)

	staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Christiana Figueres is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas.
		Figueres is supporting the efforts to develop in-country capacity to cooperatively mitigate global climate change in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
		Figueres holds a Masters degree in International Business from the Royal Holloway School at the University of London, and a Bachelors degree from Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología.
	www.csdanet.org /English/aboutcsda/staff.htm (470 words)

	INDEX
		Figueres has been rated the most unpopular president in Costa Rican history in polls conducted by Unimer.
		Figueres made significant note of the fact that he has made Costa Rica a more technologically advanced nation in his time as president.
		Figueres concluded his speech with a reference to the country’s winning the World Bank’s "Environmental Leadership Prize." Costa Rica won this award due to the country’s efforts to bring its "carbon bond" program into fruition.
	www.academic.marist.edu /mwwatch/sp98/patrick6.htm (869 words)

	The Costa Rican Civil War of 1948
		Figueres began to plot the overthrow of the corrupt government with other intellectuals and exiles, forming a rag-tag but patriotic army.
		The pact stated that Figueres had eighteen months to govern the nation, and then Figueres was to hand it over to Ulate.
		Oscar Sanchez, the president of Costa Rica from 1986-1990, was inspired by Figueres, and he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts in establishing a peace agreement with neighboring countries, which were fighting civil wars.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Americas/04/griffith/griffith.htm (1002 words)

	Figueres
		Figueres offers a life-experience setting combining all the pleasures of the body with enjoyment of the mind.
		Everything is designed to ensure that no tourist coming to Figueres will have time to feel bored, and to make stays among us a matter of continual celebration.
		Figueres lives under the magical influence of surrealism, and is for that reason a city in which one can experience all kinds of adventures.
	www.figueresciutat.com /angles (135 words)

	Visit Figueres
		Politically, Figueres saw the start of a liberal movement headed by Abdó Terrades, and this was to lead to the creation of the first Spanish republican party.
		More recent years have seen the opening of the Museum of the Empordà, in the former Chamber of Agriculture and, before that, Governor’s House, the Dalí Museum, in the former Municipal Theatre, and the Toy Museum, in the house of the Baron of Terrades, while the monument to Pep Ventura was also created.
		The name Figueres is taken from the fig tree, though its etymological roots are not all that clear and its coat of arms was made up of four quarters, two with the Catalan stripes and two with the fig leaf.
	www.ddgi.es /webfigue/angles/vis-patrimoni_mod.html (357 words)

	The Dali Museum in Figueres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, north of Spain, 30km from the Mediterranean Sea is one of Spain’s most frequently visited museums with nearly one million visitors a year.
		He decided at the beginning of the sixties to use the ruins of the ancient municipal theatre of Figueres to build his own museum.
		In 1961 the mayor of Figueres suggested to Salvador Dali the idea of a museum dedicated to his work.
	www.int-evry.fr /lfh/ressources/newsletter/Dali.htm (514 words)

	Figueres, capital of the Alt Emporda
		The notary son returned after a world-wide career and built the Museu Teatre Dali in the heart of the city, a monument in itself.
		The museum is in the former theatre of Figueres and ranks among the most visited museums of the world.
		Apart from this, Figueres offers its visitors numerous other smaller museums, for example the museum of the Empordà with ethnic and contemporary art or the toy museum.
	www.cbrava.com /Figuereseng.htm (349 words)

	Oral History Interview with José Figueres Ferrer
		I realize you had many things you wanted to do during those years; and were these programs compatible, or were they sort of...
		The people in the World Bank were extreme reactionaries who came to Costa Rica and listened to what the oligarchy here, which we had just overthrown, was saying, and repeated all the arguments for us.
		If I were to blame the United States for something in the twentieth century in Latin America, it would be for connivance with corrupt dictatorships.
	www.elespiritudel48.org /docu/h_i03.htm (5885 words)

	CNN - Disgruntled Costa Ricans expected to shun elections - February 1, 1998
		Corrales is not a popular figure among the senior members of his party, and his politicking for the presidency has been without their support.
		But even Corrales' negative association with the unpopular president Figueres is not expected to help him at the polls.
		Figueres has been in office four years, during which time consumer prices rose 61 percent.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9802/01/costa.rica (696 words)

	José M. Figueres, managing director of Davos Forum, visits Forum Barcelona2004 · Forum 2004
		Figueres to finalize plans for his participation in the Forum Dialogues.
		José M. Figueres, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and former president of Costa Rica, will visit Barcelona to attend various working meetings with the organizers of the Universal Forum of Cultures —Barcelona 2004.
		Earlier, José M. Figueres will have had a working meeting with the organizers of the Forum Dialogues to finalize the details of his participation next year in the closing Dialogue “Our Contribution to the Global Agenda”.
	www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f04540.htm (226 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; February 11, 1994
		And, Figueres and his Honduran counterpart--Carlos Roberto Reina--both promised in their campaigns to greatly increase assistance to the poorest groups in their countries most affected by structural adjustment programs.
		Despite Figueres electoral promises, however, the president-elect will face an uphill battle in the Legislative Assembly to implement his policies, since the PLN failed to win a majority of legislative seats in the Feb. 6 balloting.
		With the Feb. 6 victory by Figueres, the PLN has now triumphed in seven of the 11 electoral contests held since Costa Rica's 1948 "revolution," which was in fact led by the president-elect's father, Jose "Pepe" Figueres.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h94/notisur.19940211.html (2560 words)

	BUG - Backpackers Guide to budget travel around Barcelona and Catalunya, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres (Figueras in Castillian Spanish) was Salvador Dalí's hometown and is home to the excellent Teatre-Museu Dalí which is one of the world's leading museums of surrealist art containing much of Salvador Dalí's work.
		Figueres is situated on the train line between Barcelona and Girona and the French border and makes a convenient stopover between France and Barcelona.
		Located north of Barcelona, enroute to Figueres and the French border, Girona (Gerona in Castillian Spanish) is the major city in northern Catalunya.
	www.bugeurope.com /destinations/es-cata.html (537 words)

	Traveller Feature - e - Dalíland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres is the capital of the Upper Empordà region.
		Many of the restaurants in Figueres are found in the narrow streets around the Dalí museum, particularly along Calle Jonquera, while cafés on the Rambla are good for snacks and sandwiches.
		This used to be Dalí’s headquarters in Figueres.
	www.cntraveller.com /content/Generic/115/348257-5-2-1.html (1810 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of Jose Figueres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Figueres and his associates (who formed the Partido Liberacion Nacional in 1951) undertook policies displeasing to Washington, such as nationalizing the banking system and negotiating a more favorable contract with the United Fruit Company.
		Figueres did not waver, however, and criticized U.S. support for the dictators, going so far as to boycott the 1954 inter-American meeting because it was held in Caracas, where President Marcos Perez Jimenez held sway.
		Figueres and the PLN also benefited from Costa Rica's favorable image in the United States and from a network of sympathizers, such as Adolf Berle and liberal members of the U.S. Congress.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0817308318?v=glance (1387 words)

	ipedia.com: Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Narcís Monturiol Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol was the inventor of the mechanically driven submarine.
		Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol (September 28, 1819 - September 6, 1885) was the inventor of the mechanically driven submarine.
		This engineer, artist and intellectual was born in Spain, in the Catalan city of Figueres, as the son of a cooper.
	www.ipedia.com /narcis_monturiol_i_estarriol.html (904 words)

	Figueres : In Depth \| Frommers.com
		Famous for his eccentricity, he was called "outrageous, talented, relentlessly self-promoting, and unfailingly quotable." At his death at age 84, he was the last survivor of the three famous enfants terribles of Spain (the poet García Lorca and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel were the other two).
		For all his international renown, Dalí was born in Figueres and died in Figueres.
		Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, the son of a highly respected notary, was born on May 11, 1904, in a house on Carrer Monturiol in Figueres.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/figueres/1182010012.html (711 words)

	The Tico Times Online Daily Page
		The farm was founded by the late José (“Pepe”) Figueres, legendary leader of the 1948 revolution which created modern Costa Rican democracy.
		According to the Red Cross, the four victims were Dora Solano, 60, who was the mother-in-law of Mariano Figueres, José Figueres' son and José María Figueres' brother; Henry Solano, 37, who was Mariano Figueres' brother-in-law; Sandra Castro, 37, and her five-year-old daughter Gabriela Castro.
		Local media reported that Mariano Figueres and his wife we both at the hacienda, but according to the Red Cross, apart from those who perished, no others were injured.
	www.ticotimes.net /dailyarchive/2005_10/daily_10_03_05.htm (984 words)

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