REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Enclosure No. 2, Despatch No. 869, Septe. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Whiz y mL, NARA Date 2498 TRANSLATION of Handbill COUNTER ATTACK On CORTESISMO. TTNOQUISMO In paid space, of page seven of the DIARIO DE COSTA RICA of the 21st of August last, there appears a vile quarter of a page from the CORTESISMO TINOQUISMO, in which it is said, among other villanies, that the preachings of hate and violence of COMMUNISM are the direct cause of the crime committed on Saturday (that of González Lahmann. To these moral lepers, soxtons of the new TINOQUISMO, the Communist Executive Committee of Alajuela replied in the following terms: few years ago a member of the Cortés family embezzled a large sum in the city of Limón. Could Communism, which did not exist in our country, also have been the cause of that crime? When Asdrúbal Villalobos, important cortesista saint, became involved in the famous swindle, while a deputy and First Secretary of the Congress, was that also obeying communist instincts? Another member of the Cortés family assaulted and robbed Capullo (José Alpizar. was that also due to communist preachings? When another member of the Cortés family assassinated Don Pepe Figueredo, was that also due to Communist preachings? When another member of the Cortés family caused the death of the child Aurelio López by a shot in the head, was that also due to communism? When another relative of the fatidical candidate gave death to his wife, on the eve of motherhood, was that also due to communism?
Let the paid acolyte of CORTESISMO TINOQUISMO keep silent and still their pens; cease in their Tain attempts to stain us with foreign blood, for the shedding of which we are not to blame, and let them look to their leaders so that they may know how much blood they now spill.
EXECUTIVE COMMUNIST COMMITTEE OF ALAJUELA.
August 1935.