GUARDIA, TOMÁS

tōmäsˈ gwärˈdēä, 1832–82, president of Costa Rica. An army general, he led a revolt that eventually placed him in control and enabled him to rule the country from 1870 to 1882 with only brief interruptions. Under a repressive military dictatorship he exiled the leading families and halted the destructive Liberal-Conservative rivalry that had torn Costa Rica for nearly 50 years. Guardia undertook the building of a costly ocean-to-ocean railroad, financed and directed by the United Fruit magnate Minor Cooper Keith. Although basically a military strong man, Guardia is generally credited with having laid the groundwork of Costa Rican political stability.

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The Patient Impatience: From Boyhood to Guerilla: a Personal Narrative of Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation
Book by Tomas Borge; Curbstone Press, 1992
Subjects: Borge, Tomas--1930-, Nicaragua--History--1937-1979, Nicaragua--History--1979-1990
...to St. Francis of Assisi, that useless guardian against adolescent excesses. It was then...coffee and the reformer, Rafael Calderon Guardia, is succeeded by Teodoro Picado, smiling...existence of Augusto Sandino. My father, Tomas Alberto, had told us about him and shown...
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Costa Rica and Civilization in the Caribbean
Book by Chester Lloyd Jones; University of Wisconsin, 1935
Subjects: Costa Rica, Costa Rica--Economic Conditions, Latin America--Civilization
...3 Fernandez Guardia, History of the...the same year Fray Tomas de Berlanga, Bishop...executed by Colonel Tomas Guardia in cooperation with...3 Fernandez Guardia, Cartilla . p. 8; and Tomas Soley Guell, Historia...
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Dictionary of Latin American Theater
Book by Eladio Cortes, Mirta Barrea-Marlys; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Latin American Drama--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Theater--Latin America--Dictionaries
...Troyo, Daniel Garnier, Jose Fabio Guardia y Ayala, Victor de la Istaru, Ana...Carlos Enriquez, Jose Ramon Espinosa, Tomas Fernandez de Lizardi, Jose J...Ruiz de Alarcon, Juan Urtusastegui, Tomas Urueta, Margarita Usigli...
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The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica since the Late Nineteenth Century
Book by Marc Edelman; Stanford University, 1992
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Costa Rica--Guanacaste--History--20th Century, Haciendas--Costa Rica--Guanacaste--History--20th Century, Latifundio--Costa Rica--Guanacaste--History--20th Century
...watercourse, from its mouth in the Gulf of Nicoya as far north as Guardia, and--in a thinner strip-- along the east bank of the Tempisque...descriptions of the Indian revolts of the 1700s Fernandez Guardia 1938; Jinesta 1940 . 24 Between 1721 and 1753 the...
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The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System
Book by Thomas D. Schoonover; Duke University Press, 1991
Subjects: Central America--Economic Conditions, Central America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Central America
...and only requires Anglo-Saxon brains to make order out of chaos." Jimenezs successor as Costa Rican president, Tomas Guardia, expected the railroad to encourage commercial enterprise, to induce a large immigration, and to develop the fertile...
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Bibliografía General De Panamá
Journal article by Humberto Lypez Cruz; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Economya, Historia, Literatura panameya, Panamy, Sociologya
...en El ultimo juego de Gloria Guardia". Southeastern Latin Americanist...Carr, Jose Antonio. "Consuelo Tomas en Medellin". Tragaluz 50 (1999): 10-11. --. "Consuelo Tomas o la redencion de Adam". Tragaluz...proposito de dos cuentos de Gloria Guardia". Loteria 387 (1992): 69-72...
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Bandits, Banditry and Landscapes of Crime in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
Journal article by Greg Bankoff; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 29, 1998
Subjects: Crime--History, Criminals--History, Outlaws--History, Philippines--Crime
...Feb. 1890. 71 El Comercio, 17 Jan. 1891. 72 Grossman, "The Guardia Civil", p. 5. 73 Ileto, Pasyon and Revolution, pp. 228-29...Isabela (Manila: Establecimiento Tipografico del Colegio de Santo Tomas, 1881), pp. 35-36. 87 James Leroy, The Philippines Circa 1900...
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Magical Places in Isabel Allende's Eva Luna and Cuentos De Eva Luna
Journal article by Barbara Foley Buedel; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 53, 2006
Subjects: Allende, Isabel--Appreciation, Allende, Isabel--Works, Eva Luna (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Los cuentos de Eva Luna (Collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Works, Shaw, Donald--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...In the short story entitled "El oro de Tomas Vargas" we read: "En Agua Santa se podia...needy children in Eva Luna and "El oro de Tomas Vargas," and in "El huesped de la maestra...Agua Santa is the loeation for "El oro de Tomas Vargas," "Si me tocaras el corazon," "Tosca...
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The Curious Case of the Suspect Epistle
Journal article by Geoffrey Stagg; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, 2003
...course of "historico-literary" investigations being pursued by Tomas Munoz y Romero, a distinguished member of the Royal Academy...of the Obras completas. A French prose translation by J. M. Guardia appeared in 1864, and Gibsons English version in 1883. In 1905...


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Portrait of a Revolution
Magazine article by Dee Rivers Stimpson; National Review, Vol. 40, June 24, 1988
Subjects: Guerrilla warfare--Nicaragua, Nicaragua--Social aspects, Sandinista National Liberation Front--Social policy
...radicals take the street!" Later, the Minister of the Interior, Tomas Borge, said to the party newspaper Barricada, "It was nothing...crude sign bears the epitaph: 5 MARTIRES, CAIDOS POR LA GENOSIDA GUARDIA SOMOCISTA, 18-6-79. He crosses himself and mutters a prayer...


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newspaper articles on: Guardia TomAs  - 3 results

 
 
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The Rhythm of Life in a Changing Spain
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2004
Subjects: Graves, Robert
...came to pay homage to the poet of the White Goddess throughout Tomas adolescence. At one Graves party in Deia, the familys home...island, Ava Gardner simply would not leave the handsome young Guardia Civil deputed to defend her alone until he agreed to dance with...
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101st Death Anniversary of Apolinario Mabini
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 13, 2004
Subjects: Mabini, Apolinario
...in 1887 and his law degree in 1894 at the University of Santo Tomas. A man of exceptional intellect and passion for study, he became...crippled him in early 1896. Arrested on October 10, 1896, by the guardia civiles, his condition saved him from the firing squad. Don...
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Marcelo H. del Pilar 156th Birth Anniversary
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 30, 2006
Subjects: Pilar, Marcelo H. del
...Bulacan and Pampanga. He finished law at the University of Santo Tomas but writing beckoned him when he saw the sad plight of his oppressed...circulated them in Manila and neighboring provinces. Reports by the guardia civiles noted many nocturnal meetings where many men and women...


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encyclopedia articles on: Guardia TomAs  - 2 results

 
 
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Guardia, TomÁs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GUARDIA, TOMAS tomas gwar dea, 1832 82, president of Costa...torn Costa Rica for nearly 50 years. Guardia undertook the building of a costly ocean-to-ocean...Although basically a military strong man, Guardia is generally credited with having laid...
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Costa Rica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...that dominated the country until the administration of Tomas Guardia (1870 82). In 1874, Minor Cooper Keith founded...with the accord. Bibliography See R. Fernandez Guardia, History of the Discovery and Conquest of Costa Rica...


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