Abstract

MOLINA JIMENEZ, Iván. Catolicismo y comunismo en Costa Rica (1931-1940). Desacatos [online]. 2006, n.22, pp.157-172. ISSN 2448-5144.

This article analyzes the response given to the foundation of the Communist Party of Costa Rica by the Catholic politicians and the Church in 1931. It demonstrates that even though there were notable social concerns in the discourses of some clergymen, dating back to the late XIX century, those interests were only intensified once the attempts to render illegal the communist party failed.The successful electoral participation of the Communist Party within a context of global economic crisis, and its capacity to reach a broad public audience through its newspaper Trabajo, strengthened a group of clerics and laymen convinced that popular demands caused by unemployment, the rising costs of life and low wages had to be dealt with in institutional ways.

Keywords : social catholicism; communism; Costa Rica.

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