Caribbean Legion
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The Caribbean Legion was an irregular paramilitary group and network of progressive Latin American exiles, mercenaries, and revolutionaries in the 1940s. They aimed to overthrow dictatorships across C
Che Guevara & Fidel Castro.
Teodoro Picado Michalski
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Teodoro Picado Michalski was a Costa Rican educator, lawyer and politician who served as the 30th President of Costa Rica from 1944 to 1948. A member of the National Republican Party, he previously se
Caribbean Legion
…largest number were from the Dominican Republic. The stated targets of the Legion were the dictatorships of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and Teodoro Picado in Costa Rica. The Legion mounted two failed invasions of the Dominican Republic, in 1947 and 1949. It successfully toppled the Costa Rican government…
Picado in 1944