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Isaac Felipe Azofeifa
Isaac Felipe Azofeifa (11 April 1909 – 3 April 1997) was a Costa Rican poet, politician and educator. Azofeifa is considered one of the most important Costa Rican poets of the twentieth century. Biography He was born in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica in 1909. In 1929 he entered the Instituto Pedagógico de Santiago de Chile (Pedagogical Institute of Santiago), where he became Professor of State in Castilian. He became a member of the '' Runrunismo'' group where he met poets such as Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ..., Juvencio Valle and Pablo de Rokha. In 1935 he returned to Costa Rica and it dedicated his life to literature, the education and politics. He won second place in a contest to write a diary of Costa Rica. From 1943 until his ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Force (Costa Rica)
Democratic Force ( es, Fuerza Democrática) nicknamed “''El Naranjazo''” (the ''Big Orange'' or the ''Orange Hit'' because the color of its flag) was a political party in Costa Rica. The party was founded in 1992 by Gerardo Trejos and other left-wing Costa Rican leaders taking the structure of the Progress Party that nominated poet Isaac Felipe Azofeifa for the 1990 general election. For around a decade was Costa Rica's main alternative force and third party in a very rigid two-party system dominated by the major parties PLN and PUSC. In the 1994 elections the party won 2 seats, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p175 whilst its candidates in the presidential election; TV personality and folklorist Miguel Zúñiga Díaz a.k.a. Miguel Salguero, finished third with 1.9% of the vote. In the 1998 elections it gained 3 seat, whilst its candidate (this time historian Vladimir De la Cruz De Lemos) again finished third in the presidential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Costa Rica To Chile
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Costa Rican Male Poets
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Democratic Force (Costa Rica) Politicians
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Democratic Force can refer to: * Democratic Force (Costa Rica) * Democratic Force (France) * Democratic Force (Peru) * Democratic Force (Romania) The Democratic Force ( ro, Forţa Democrată, FD) was a social-democratic political party in Romania without parliamentary representation. It was led by the Senator and former Prime Minister Petre Roman. In 2012, the party merged with the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) Politicians
National Liberation Party may refer to: *National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) The National Liberation Party ( es, Partido Liberación Nacional, PLN), nicknamed the ' ("green and whites"), is a political party in Costa Rica. The party is a member of the Socialist International. Social-democratic by statute, the party has ... * National Liberation Party (Gambia) {{disambiguation es:Partido Liberación Nacional fr:Parti Libération nationale (Costa Rica) it:Partido Liberación Nacional lt:Kosta Rikos nacionalinio išvadavimo partija no:Partido Liberación Nacional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Santo Domingo (canton), Costa Rica
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1997 Deaths
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1909 Births
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National Liberation Party (Costa Rica)
The National Liberation Party ( es, Partido Liberación Nacional, PLN), nicknamed the ' ("green and whites"), is a political party in Costa Rica. The party is a member of the Socialist International. Social-democratic by statute, the party has a few internal factions, including liberals, Third Way supporters, centrists, and social conservatives. History In 1948 a rebel group called National Liberation Army commanded by caudillo José Figueres Ferrer led a rebellion against the government of then President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and his communist allies. After the Civil War the rebels were victorious and Figueres took power de facto. Yet, Figueres did not overrule the social reforms made by Calderón and allies, like Social Security, almost free college education and Labor Laws but kept them and even made a series of progressive reforms himself like abolishing the army and introducing taxation on capital. Figueres gave up power in favor of the democratically elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of . An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, Costa Rica, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. The sovereign state is a Unitary state, unitary Presidential system, presidential Constitution of Costa Rica, constitutional republic. It has a long-standing and stable democracy and a highly educated workforce. The country spends roughly 6.9% of its budget (2016) on education, compared to a global average of 4.4%. Its economy, once heavily dependent on agriculture, has diversif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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