Victory for Democracy

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 Calderon 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.

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