REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority State Letter Whz By ML, NARA Caº 24181 unprincipled in the country, Communists are going to use those weapons to achieve their own ends. The incident in Heredia has proved that the Costa Rican Government le not only aided by Comuniom, but controlled by it.
Freedom of the press has been preserved, because the Government does not want to precipitate the popular revolt. The Republic has now a political exile in Mexico. For years and years we had no exiles.
Commercial speculation has been pampered by the friends of the Government, whose eyes are closed to this evil.
The public debt has been augmented in sixty three million colones in three years of administration, with no defense, no great army, no creation of industry, with only a few miles of inter urban roads to account for it.
The sanitary works undertaken there by the Government, administered by American officials, are the only ones which will remain untainted by graft, At present, the Costa Rican Government, afraid of the investiga.
tion of all violations of law and of all its evil deeds, is most eager to win the elections that will take place on the 13th of February and has been exerting pressure, contriving frauds, bribing dishonest people and we fear preparing a coup etat, the results of which we cannot quite foresee.
The honest people of the country know that the only thing that can be done to prevent the killing of the Costa Rican democ racy is the presence of Continental public opinion during those days 15 of February: the pross, not merely to watoh, but to pass judgment upon its observations, upon the events preceding these elections. We cannot