Cahuita Hotel 239
When you are in Cahuita stay at our Hotel located on the Caribbean Coast. We have a nice beach. The water is warm and the sky is blue.
Supported by the governments of Guatemala and Cuba, Don Pepe's
insurrectionists captured the cities of Cartago and Puerto Limón and were poised
to pounce on San José when Calderón, who had little heart for the conflict,
capitulated. (The government's pathetically trained soldiers--aided and armed by
the Somoza regime in Nicaragua--included communist banana workers from the
lowlands; they wore blankets over their shoulders against the cold of the
highlands, earning Calderon supporters the nickname mariachis.) The 40-day civil
war claimed over 2,000 lives, most of them civilians.
