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  Juan Rafael Mora Porras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Juan Rafael Mora Porras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Juan Rafael Mora Porras was (The chief executive of a republic) President of (A republic in Central America; one of the most politically stable countries in Latin America) Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859.
After initial victories, in which he succeeded in seizing the port of (Click link for more info and facts about Puntarenas) Puntarenas, he was defeated, captured, and, on 30 September 1860, brought before a (A squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution) firing squad.
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 About FANAL: Historia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Juan Rafael Mora Porras, it was concentrated the distillery of liquors and alcohols in the state, with the regulation 101 of the above decree that was published on September 25th the same year, it was determined that from January 1st 1851 it was prohibited the distillery of liquor by people.
Juan Rafael Mora Chief of the State in 1853, it was born one of the biggest industries of the country, the National Factory of Liquor, created with the steady purpose of promoting the cane industry and keep the public health against the pernicious liquor consume for its high content of toxic elements.
Juan Rafael Mora Porras and the San Jose's bishop Anselmo Llorente y La Fuente.
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 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Costa Rica elections and events 1812-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Blackford 1992: José Rafael de Gallegos' "election to the presidency was the first case of electoral irregularity in Costa Rica, in that he was awarded the presidency by the Congress even though Manuel Aguilar won a majority of the votes" (page 38).
Salazar Mora, Orlando 1990: Mora is overthrown August 14, 1859 as a result of conflicts among groups in the coffee oligarchy, and José María Montealegre is proclaimed provisional president (page 23).
Salazar Mora, Orlando 1992: Gives number of electors and percent of vote in the popular election and the number of votes and percent of votes received in the electoral college by the PLP (page 16).
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 Democracy & Coffee - Costa Rica Travel and Adventure Guide of Costa Rica, - costarican living - costarica Travel Book ...
As a leader, Mora encouraged coffee growing and began modest exports of the bean through Chile to Europe, where the dark brew was becoming a fashionable drink.
Mora’s second successor, a domineering San José lawyer, Braulio Carrillo, came to power in 1835.
When the country’s second president, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, tried to open a state bank to provide favorable credit to small farmers, the coffee elite greedily squelched his reforms as well.
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 Costa Rica Real Estate Sales - Our History
Quite the opposite, they found an indigenous region resistant to Spanish exploitation, so conquerors were not interested in the area and came later than in most of the rest of Central American territories.
In 1561 Juan de Cavallón commanded the first settlers into Costa Rica, and from 1562 to 1565 some of them founded the settlement of Cartago and other villages in the central valley, where most of the population is still concentrated.
Rafael A. Calderón Fournier, son of former president Rafael Calderón Guardia, won the election of February 1990, running as the candidate of the Social Christian Unity Party (Partido Unidad Social Cristiana, or PUSC).
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 Historic Museum Casona Santa Rosa
Walker offered his help in Nicaragua to try and solve their problems, thereby establishing himself in the country, but his real intention were to conquer the five provinces of Central America "Five or none".
In Costa Rica, don Juan Rafael Mora Porras, the President, guessed the intentions of Walker and on the 27th of February 1856 declared war on Nicaragua and called all Costa Ricans to join forces and fight, a call that is heeded.
In 1955, when don José Figueres Ferrer was president, groups loyal to Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia (Expresident of Costa Rica); who had been forced to leave the country; invaded our territory from Nicaragua, arriving at the Hacienda Santa Rosa, where there ensued a battle between Figueristas and Calderonistas, with the victory of the former.
www.acguanacaste.ac.cr /1997/ecodesarrollo/ecoturismo/museosantarosaing.html   (868 words)

  
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Born into a wealthy family of coffee plantation owners, he was sent to study medicine in London, where he graduated as a surgeon.
He came to power through a coup d'état against Juan Rafael Mora Porras.
In the first months of his presidency he convened a constitutional conventional, which produced the Constitution of 1859.
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 Costa Rica
16 Nov 1849 - 26 Nov 1849 José Miguel Mora Porras (acting) (b.
26 Nov 1849 - 14 Aug 1859 Juan Rafael Mora Porras (b.
This style became the only constitutional one from 27 May 1841 to 6 Jun 1842.
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 Curriculum Vitae Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Studies published in 1993 and 1994, for Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-
1993a Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871.
Austin: C. Smith, Sr., Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and the Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, pp.
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 Rolena Adorno
Author of introductory essay, “The account of Don Juan de Mendoza y Luna, the marquis of Montesclaros, viceroy of Peru, to his successor” / “
Relación de Don Juan de Mendoza y Luna, el marqués de Montesclaros, virrey del Perú, a su sucesor.
Twentieth-Century Debates on Mexican History and the Juan Cabezón Novels of Homero Aridjis, Princeton University, June, 1996.
www.mtp.hum.ku.dk /authors/adorno/cv.asp   (9336 words)

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