The son of an MIT alumnus who nationalized this country’s banks implemented a carbon tax before he led the WEF. Carmen Lyra, a Communist from this country’s positivist Olympian generation, inspired its 1934 strike with the novel Bananas and Men and helped depose its oligarchic Tinoco brothers. This country, whose Black non-citizens in Limón won the vote in 1949, annexed part of its southern neighbor’s province of Chiriquí in the 1921 Coto War. In the 1940s, this country’s Calderonistas enshrined its “Social Guarantees” of welfare and took land from Heredia’s (“eh-RED-ee-ah’s”) coffee barons. After a failed Dominican invasion, the Caribbean Legion helped this country’s National Liberation Army depose Teodoro Picado. José Figueres Ferrer electrified this country with hydropower. For 10 points, a 1948 civil war led what Central American country to abolish its army? ■END■
ANSWER: Costa Rica [or Republic of Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica; accept 1948 Costa Rican Civil War or Guerra civil de Costa Rica de 1948; accept Afro-Costa Ricans or afrocostarricenses] (The first line refers to José María Figueres. The southern neighbor is Panama.)
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