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	José Figueres Ferrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They closely watched the Legion’s activities, especially after Figures carried out a series of terrorist attacks inside Costa Rica during 1945 and 1946 that was supposed to climax in a general strike.
		Former President Calderon supporters through fraud prevented and invalidated the March 1, 1948, presidential election in which Otilio Ulate Blanco had defeated President Picado in his second term bid.
		Figueres stepped down after 18 months, handing his power over to Otilio Ulate, and ever since Costa Ricans have settled their arguments constitutionally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Figueres_Ferrer (4071 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		When it became apparent that Ulate had won by a small margin--most of the population did not vote at all--the "calderonistas," who still controlled a majority of the seats in the National Assembly, attempted to nullify the results and declare Calderón the winner.
		Then it was announced that two members had agreed that Ulate had won the presidency by 54,931 votes as against 44,438 for Calderón; the third member of the group contended that still more time was necessary to scrutinize the ballots.
		Carey 1997: "Although Ulate's Partido Unión Nacional (PUN) held 34 of 45 seats in the Constituent Assembly, the delegates drafted a document that protected the institutional interest of the legislature and weakened the powers of the presidency, even as their copartisan was about to assume the office" (page 201).
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/costarica/1948.html (7098 words)

	Jose Figueres Ferrer Biography / Biography of Jose Figueres Ferrer Main Biography
		Figuéres and his colleagues, organized in the Social Democratic party, supported Otilio Ulate Blanco against former president Calderon Guardia, the government's nominee.
		When Congress negated Ulate's victory, Figuéres started a successful revolt and became president of the provisional government.
		In November 1949 it turned the government over to Otilio Ulate, victor in the 1948 election.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jose-figueres-ferrer/index.html (651 words)

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		The perfect moment for that was a year of 1948, when off that time president of polish origin Teodoro Picado Michalski induced by Calderon Guardia, didn`t want to give back the power for brand new president Otilio Ulate Blanco.
		After 18 monthes of governing, the junta returned the reins of power to Otilio Ulate Blanco, the actual winner of the 1948 elections.
		The least known fact from year of 1948 is that the guerillas military groups weren`t neither drunk nor druged.
	www.kostaryka.org /2001/xx.htm (3601 words)

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		Ferreira, who served in Congress for the liberal Blanco Party for 34 years and was agriculture minister from 1963 to 1967, was narrowly defeated in the 1971 presidential election by the Colorado Party candidate, Juan María Bordaberry.
		When Ferreira returned to Uruguay in 1984, he was immediately arrested and jailed by the military, who feared that his powerful influence would inhibit their negotiated exit from power.
		When Calderón was defeated by Otilio Ulate for reelection in 1948, the Legislative Assembly tried to annul the election and reinstall Calderón.
	www.rulers.org /indexf1.html (14764 words)

	Mario Echandi Jiménez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Prior to his election, he had served as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States and as the country's representative to both the United Nations and the Organization of American States.
		He also served as the minister of foreign affairs under President Otilio Ulate Blanco and in the Legislative Assembly during President José Figueres Ferrer's second term in office (1953-1958).
		He ran for the presidency on two further occasions – 1970 and 1982 – but was defeated on both.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Mario-Echandi-Jim%E9nez.htm (171 words)

	Otilio Ulate Blanco
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		Luis Rafael de la Trinidad Otilio Ulate Blanco served as President of Costa Rica from 1949 to 1953.
		His disputed election in 1948, whereby he was denied victory by the legislature in favor of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, was the direct cause of José Figueres Ferrer's armed uprising of that year and the ensuing 40-day civil war.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/otilio_ulate_blanco (139 words)

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		Opposition parties can appeal to the electorate’s sense of pride in Costa Rica’s social democratic values, thwarting the leadership’s chances for reforming the Costa Rican economy.
		The Ulate-Figueres Pact of 1948 put an end to Costa Rica’s last civil war; it allowed a governing junta to rule by decree for eighteen months after which the president-elect Otilio Ulate Blanco assumed power under the soon-to-be-constructed Constitution.
		A popularly elected constituent assembly finished that task in 1949, creating the basis for Costa Rica’s current political regime.
	www.commercialdiplomacy.org /ma_projects/ma_costarico4.htm (4641 words)

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