Manuel Mora Valverde (27 August 1909 – 29 December 1994) was a

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

and labor leader in

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. He was born in

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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 included ...

(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.

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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 {{CostaRica-politician-stub

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