DECLASSIFIED REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Authority Stateletter Inhaz le; me sc: 24 181 LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA San José, Costa Rica, February 1, 1939 No. 567 Subject: Nomination of Manuel Mora Valverde by Communist Party as Candidate for Presidency to DIVISION OF the copy THE ANIMATE SUNLINE DEPARTMENT OF SI AM 10 818. 00B 104 Oht 1939 FEB The Honorable The Secretary of State, Washington.
SA J have the honor to inform the Department that Manuel Mora Valverde, mentioned in the Legation despatch No. 547 of January 17, 1939, as being a probable communist candidate for the Presidency of Costa Rica, was nominated to be the candidate of the Communist party, sometimes called the Workers and Farmers party (Bloque de Obreros y Campesinos. at a meeting of this organization in San José on the evening of January 30.
The meeting, held in one of the local stadiums, was stated in LA HORA, a San José news sheet more or less closely allied with the Communist party, to have been attended