Costa Rica: Civil War (TRIH ep 258)
1948 · Resource
In this World Cup-themed episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the history of Costa Rica, concentrating on the 1948 Civil War and its long-term consequences. Dominic narrates the lead-up: populist president Rafael Ángel Calderón, his weak successor Teodoro Picado Mikalski, allegations of electoral fraud and the murder of a newspaperman (named in the transcript as Artiglio Ularte Blanco) which triggered revolt. José Figueres Ferrer ("Don Pepe") leads a heterogeneous anti-authoritar...
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Around 1948
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)