REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Aylherity Stateletter Mhz by me, NARI Date 2458 PM RECD o Esbl Kaannol Race Gate situata e Mc Ceney Werlich, Secretary of Legation sobre Inform por allowed. Since then, through the personal ascendenoy of the President, the direction of the country affairs has progressed smoothly; the opposition has been comparatively dormant, with the exception of a series of vitriolio. and often unfounded. attacks on the President during November and December in the DIARIO DE COSTA RICA.
Communism made its entrance into local politics as a result of the December 4th nation wide elections for municipal and cantonal offices. TWO Communists (Workers and Peasants Party) were chosen for the San José municipal council, one through the first ballot and another through a recount.
socially, conditions have not been bad although Communism has obtained mandates. The standards or living are not high, even among the well to do classes, and therefore, the world crisis has not had as serious effect on Costa Rica as in other nations.
Cases of unemployment, the equivalent to destitution in its milder forms, have never exceeded 9, 000 in this country of 500, 000 inhabitants.
International relations have been uneventful; in fact, Costa Rica has been moșt fortunate in this respect. There have been sporatic but ineffectual outbreaks of maliciousness with respect to the boundary question with Panama; Costa Rica, through the imposition of a cattle import tax, has not improved its relations with Nicaragua; during the latter days of the year; President Jiménez and Foreign Minister Pacheco were apparently not loh1 00 818 27 successful