August 27, 1909, was born in San José Manuel Mora Valverde. A little publicized centenary, low profile until now, but we can not remember the founder and leader of the Communist Party Costa Rican history, from the forties, the Popular Vanguard Party.
visionary, builder of a personal project in years of Stalinist centralization of the communist movement, Manuel never lost his independence of mind to bow to the dictates arrived from outside.
political arm installed on the Comgreso while organizing the Strike CALUFA Banana in 1934, Manuel and his colleagues understood that the struggle was possible that social demands were targets can be met.
In 1938, only seven years after the founding of the PC, Manuel speaks to construct a "communism of the policy," a Creole community, to consider the particularities of the development of the Costa Rican government, and that from this consideration Give up the armed struggle as a viable option to achieve power. Since legislative trenches, his brilliant and passionate verb, accompanied by many other colleagues, managed to have more influence than many guerrillas and insurgency achieved in our America.
With a key role in the process of social reform and state generated in the forties, Manuel, along with Calderon, Sanabria, and later, Figueres and his group manage to lay the foundations of the Costa Rica we met and that little little we have left trailing, the Costa Rica can generate opportunities for the majority. Manual
suffered prison, exile and the criticism of his fellow hardline ... suffered the vicissitudes of politics misunderstood and narrow view, however, his ideals were not disrupted and had a flawless activities in the defense of its principles to the end of his days. Manuel knew
negotiate, reconcile, to show solidarity, build, build .... was wrong, wrong, failed at times as good human being who was, but his legacy is undeniable and recognized by friends and strangers, friends and political enemies, by a wide ideological spectrum to recognize in him a genuine commitment to the vast majority need and the development of justice and equity in Costa Rica. This recognition of his commitment to the country was recognized with the approval of its benemeritazgo, well-deserved posthumous tribute. Serve
its centennial as a reminder that politics can be honest ... it is possible to build the other hand, it is possible to be consistent ...
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