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Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...
...Major Alberto Taborga, strong-armed Minister of the Interior, was replaced by tall, serious Lieut. Colonel Alfredo Pacheco, chief of the Air Force, who once studied flying in the U.S. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Otazo, vehement against nearly everything, replaced Minister of Agriculture Carlos Montenegro, who has much the same reputation. Nervous, nationalistic Walter Guevara became Secretary General of the Government in place of Augusto Cespedes, moving spirit of the newspaper La Calle, once blacklisted...
...Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, First Vice President of Peru, visited Washington and the White House last week. Probably he discussed his favorite and biggest idea, a sweeping federation of all Western Hemisphere countries, including Canada. He believes that the Federation should supersede the Pan American Union, which he considers "outdated and fossilized...
...Candidates. Liberal President Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, author of an employer-hated labor code, cannot constitutionally succeed himself. Candidate of his Republican Party is handsome Teodoro Picado. Candidate of the opposition Democrats is sour-faced León Cortés, now supported by most of Costa Rica's capitalists and landowners...
...Senator Rafael Avila, head of Mexico's Truman Committee: "Nobody but a superman could solve the whole problem...