REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inha byme NARI Date 24 18 might possibly grow into a movement of significance in the country political life. General Volio has done much of the spade work, but it is a remote possibility indeed that he will ever realize the dream (which apparently took form and matured during his recent sojourn in Italy) of becoming a Mussolini style Duce in Costa Rica.
Manuel Francisco Jiménez is not troubled by any dreams of a New Deal. He is one of the most representative members of the well to do Costa Rican coffee aristocracy and his affluence is tangible proof of the advantages that accrue to a talented native who attaches himself permanently to powerful foreign interests. Hi patron saint has been Cecil Linđo, the Jamaican entrepreneur who came to Costa Rica in the late 80s as a young man of talent and keen business judgment and who today has a variety of interests. both here and in Jamaica. including urban real estate, coffee and sugar farms, brewery, et cetera, that bring him enough income to furnish him constant worry as to where it can be most safely invested in a topsy turvy world.
Señor Jiménez has found it so profitable to be an altar boy at the shrine of big business and has achieved such conspicuous success in his calling that on paper he appears to be an ideal candidate to represent the coffee oligarchy of Costa Rica which has given its blessing to every President (except Alfredo González Flores) who has been elected