Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The salesian congregation proposed attending the social matter of childhood, considered endangered and risky to the social order. In this context there were women who engaged relationships with salesians to receive aid and collaborate as cooperators. This article will examine the requests for asistance in personal, familial and friendly matters that were made by women through letters in the first three decades of the 20th century. The objective is to reflect on two dimensions: the expectations they had about the reach of salesian aid and, secondarily, the reception their claims had. It’s claimed that those requests were transversal to the social classes and exceeded the places were the congregation’s houses and cooperatives’s commissions. Moreso, it sustains that these women intended to extend the predetermined limits of salesian aid that revolved around the applications for admission of children and young people to schools, support in devotional matters and support for community religious and educational endeavors. In fact, they petitioned to obtain favours, social, economical and political intermediation and help in economic matters for themselves and people on their most immediate circles.

This article analyzes the emergence and consolidation of the Florida Ice and Farm (FIFCO) brewing company, one of the most advanced and modern in the Costa Rican context. Founded in 1908, the company borders on a monopoly and is owned by the hegemonic factions of the local elite. Precisely, the objective of the research was to understand its crucial role as a source of wealth, alliances, and power of oligarchic families. Likewise, its peculiar relationships with the state apparatus, its tangle of subsidiaries, among other points, were studied. Methodologically, it is based on a business history linked to the elites, which not only addresses their corporate history, but also highlights their links with power. Finally, sources such as archival documents, newspapers and FIFCO reports were used.

Collections of historical maps which preserve the National Archives of Costa Rica have an invaluable cultural value and due to its fragility, should be preserved in digital format for it manipulation. The initiative for create a Historic Map Library of Costa Rica, not only promotes the protection of these documents but also its electronic divulgation. Its main products are potential inputs for scientific research, consultation in general and the promotion of historical geography.

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The knowledge about the economic and institutional conditions in the communities around the protected areas is essential to strength the conservation effort that is running into them and also to achieve the best conditions of the inhabitants of the communities. Thus, the reality shows on these topics presents the periphery of the Alberto Manuel Brenes Biological Reserve, where per capita income is so low that leads the population to locate in extreme poverty. Meanwhile in these places there is no proper management and disposal of solid waste. At institutional level there is a wide electricity coverage, but not so for access to telephone and mobile telephone, and Internet.

Between 1940 and 1974, the celebration of Nicoya’s annexation had a nationwide expansion and grew as a national event, caused mainly by the growth of the Welfare State, and the official declaration of its celebration as a national holiday. In this paper, we determined the motivations for converting the annexation’s celebration into a national holiday, we established the links between this process and the regionalist discourses that existed in Guanacaste, and establish how identified was the general population of Costa Rica with the new national holiday. In order to do this, we analyzed the discourses of articles that were broadcast in some of the principal newspapers in the country, and a regional one; in which we have found the main scenarios, subjects, and arguments of this process. We found that this expansion intended first, to appease the discourses that supported the arguments that Guanacaste was the “Cinderella” of Costa Rica because it was a neglected region in economic, social and political terms. Second, the Welfare State needed physical and media tribunes to spread its support for some predominant agricultural activities in the province, and try to better position its image in the country. The sesquicentennial celebration of the annexation, in 1974, was a milestone in the deployment that this was achieved in Guanacaste, however, showed that it was still not consolidated with the desired intensity in the rest of the country.