REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Alhority Stateletter Inhz ay me NARI Date 24 18 Constitutional prohibition. Another development of political interest was the recent transfer of Colonel Sartoresi, Second in Command of the garrison at Alajuela, who is known to be pro Cortés, from Alajuela to San José, Colonel Sartoresi has recently been accused of favoring the Cortés forces in Alajuela, and the Administration has seen fit to transfer him to the First Section of Police in San José. This transfer has evoked no comment except in the Communist weekly TRABAJO which asked why Colonel Sartoresi was not dismissed outright instead of being transferred.
The attitude of President Jiménez in the political campaign, while claimed by the Beeche Party to be very favorable to León Cortés, has outwardly been neutral.
While such members of his cabinet as Raúl Gurdián, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Teodoro Picado, Minister of Public Education and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Ricardo Pacheco Lara, Minister of Public Works and Agriculture, are openly in favor of the candidacy of León Cortés, the Minister of Gobernación (Interior) Santos León Herrera, who is actually the administration official most directly concerned with the elections, is considered to be impartial and fair, and there have been no complaints by either party of cases of discrimination by officials against political groups.
The regular Christmas and New Year fiestas are bound to attract the attention of the majority of the Costa