REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter The öy me, WARS D2:09 2498 (Workers and Peasants Party) was refused permission by President González Viquez to inscribe itself in the Presidential elections of 1932. The present Executive took the stand, however, that the communists should be permitted to enter electoral campaigns and work for the principles of their Party alongside of the other political groups; otherwise there was no remedy for them but to use force to put their theories into practice. The President argued that if the majority of the costa Rican people wish to adopt communism there is nothing the country can do about it.
But President Jiménez is by no means alone to be blamed for the spread of Communism in costa Rica; nor is the principal complaint of the Communists directed against him and or his Government. The low wages paid by large coffee planters are manifestly equally responsible for the spread of the Red doctrine outside of the Capital, while the corrupt San José municipal government has done much to make unemployed laborers in the Capital willing to listen to the pleadings of such agitators as Manuel Mora Talverde, Adolfo Braña and Carmen Lyra. It is openly stated that grafting Councilmen have drained the Municipal treasury and have thus prevented the employment of laborers (or at least the payment of their wages) even when there is work to do.
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