REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES A3. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Maher LEGATION OF THE y me NARA Cate 2418 UNITED STATES OF AMET San José, Costa Ricette 24 February 10, 1958 pression et too Dres DEPARY F0 1 1839 193 Metin li 10 DEPARTMENT OF STATIV No. 57810 kanta AIR MAL DE Subject: Candidates for the Presidency of 200 Costa Rica Cuddat. o one has the nocitne sapport of a large majority of the conservetive in and morsio eleintents will the other can count upon i ammunist.
Being abigotiprottibution 191 oferaet direduir 02039 DEPARTMENT OF STATE COMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS 1939 FEB 20 yan an, indiation that it wil1 support the 818. 00 1578 04dats. LA PRESA LIBRE quoted the President on De bar lo as being said that he woula not at anyone DE STATE Spideroy UNDER SR The Secretary DU or vestroy anyone 50 asyšred to sucosed Veche The Honorable ane the secretary of State, tee that canviše orelo or his scoiwashtinations were Calderoniste deron Guardia la not an official candidate, Dr. Walderon Caardis işitse enjoying ery storitism on the part of the govern. pinate the honor to inform the Department sthat although the elections for the presidency cof Costa Rica. will not occür until the spring of 1940 two candidates have already been nominated by their respective parties for the office, one being Dr. Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, President of the Costa Rican Congress, nomtäna ted last fall by the National Republican Party (Partido Republicano Nacional) äna Manuel Mora Valverdere at deputy in Congress, who, as reported in the Legations despatchi oc13 04No: 567, dated February 196 1989, was nominated by theseech Communist party (Bloque de Obreros y Campesinos. ons reached him that public sployees in Micoge bed January MJD Viva