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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 (-5[1])in Limón won the vote (10[1])in 1949, (10[1])annexed part of its southern neighbor’s province of Chiriquí in the 1921 Coto War. (10[1])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, (10[1])the Caribbean Legion helped (10[1])this country’s (10[1])National (-5[1])Liberation Army depose Teodoro Picado. José Figueres Ferrer (10[3])electrified this country with hydropower. For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])a 1948 civil war led what Central American country to abolish its (10[1])army? (10[2])■END■ (10[8])

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