Manuel Mora Valverde (27 August 1909 – 29 December 1994) was a
communist
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and labor leader in
Costa Rica
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. He was born in
San José and helped to found the
Workers and Farmers Party
The Workers and Farmers Party was a Marxist political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party was organised by former Democratic Labour Party leader Stephen Maharaj, C.L.R. James, George Weekes (of the Oilfields Workers Trade Union) and include ...
(later the
People's Vanguard Party) in 1931. For his contributions to the labor movement and to the institution of a welfare state, Mora was awarded the title ''
Benemérito de la Patria'' by the Legislative Assembly.
See also
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Social Guarantees Social Guarantees were a series of progressive political reforms made in Costa Rica in the 1940s for the benefit of the working classes. They came about as a result of the alliance between various political and religious figures. Though a widespre ...
External links
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A short biography
1909 births
1994 deaths
People from San José, Costa Rica
Costa Rican people of Spanish descent
People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica) politicians
People of the Costa Rican Civil War
Costa Rican revolutionaries
Costa Rican atheists
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