REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Enclosure No. 2, Despatch No. 928, Nover Authority Stateletter Inhz TRANSLATION ByME, NARI 02:0 2458 TRABAJO ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF COSTA RICA Sunday, November 10, 1935.
THE CORTES PARTY PROCLAIMS THAT IT WILL NOT GO TO SECOND ELECTIONS Its intention is to have a coup état in Congress, León Cortés resigning his candidacy so that there will not be second elections and he may be named Designate by his parliamentary majority.
But they will not do it. The Costa Rican people will stop him with the Communist Party in the lead.
The laboring people of Costa Rica are resolved to go to all extremes of violence if the Cortés Party pretends to frustrate the will of the people without complying with the mandate of the Constitution which obligates second elections when in the first no candidate has obtained an absolute majority (Tr. of the votes. Translated by BZ Copied by BZ