José Figueres Ferrer

José Figueres Ferrer was a Costa Rican politician who led the 1948 uprising and served three nonconsecutive terms as president. He abolished Costa Rica’s army after the conflict.

Costa Rican Civil War: A 44-day conflict in 1948 between government forces and an insurgency led by José Figueres Ferrer. The conflict brought Figueres to power and set the terms for his reforms.
1948 Costa Rican presidential election: The disputed Costa Rican election whose annulment helped trigger the 1948 civil war. The annulment of the opposition victory provided the immediate political spark for Figueres’s revolt.
San Ramón, Costa Rica: A city in Costa Rica’s Alajuela Province, where José Figueres Ferrer was born. Figueres’s Costa Rican roots began in this town in 1906.
Costa Rican Communist Party: A Costa Rican political party founded in 1931, later known as the Popular Vanguard Party. Its alliance with Calderón’s supporters placed it on the opposing side of Figueres’s revolt.
1949 Constitution of Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s constitution, adopted in 1949, establishing the framework of its modern political system. The constituent assembly convened under Figueres’s provisional government produced this constitutional settlement.
Otilio Ulate Blanco: Costa Rican journalist and politician elected president in 1948, whose victory was annulled by Congress. Figueres’s forces fought in the name of restoring Ulate’s electoral mandate.
Costa Rican exile communities: Communities of Costa Rican political opponents who lived abroad during periods of domestic repression. Figueres organized opposition while living outside Costa Rica in the early 1940s.
Costa Rican social democracy: A political tradition in Costa Rica combining electoral democracy with social reform and public institutions. Figueres’s movement became a major vehicle for this alternative to revolutionary communism and oligarchic rule.
Abolition of the Costa Rican Army: Costa Rica’s 1948 decision to abolish its standing military forces. Figueres made the abolition a defining act of his provisional government.
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia: Costa Rican president from 1940 to 1944 and a leading figure in the 1948 conflict. Calderón’s supporters backed the government forces that opposed Figueres’s insurgency.

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