This president ruled for 10 years. He had a nickname- Don Juanito. He started his presidency as the replacement of Jose Maria Castro after the coffee barons pushed Jose out. Mora was a big coffee planter so the coffee barons thought he would make a great replacement. Mora wanted to be more legit than that so he rigged elections in favor for himself. Somehow, that makes him more legit. . .Most likely, Mora would not have had a second term, but then, along came William Walker. Walker wanted to conquer Costa Rica and was proslavery, so Mora raised an army to fight off Walker. This worked, but his success against Walker was short lived because then cholera came and killed off about a tenth of the population. Mora liked to play favorism and that earned him some enemies. He also created the National Bank and his family monopolized the coffee industry, so making more enemies for himself. He was finally exiled out of the country in 1859 when he tried to rig the elections again to give himself a third term. He died when he returned from his exile in El Salvador to try and retake the country. He had taken Puntarenas but was later shoot and arrested 1860.
Achievements:
- built the Liquor Factory
- built the University of Santo Tomas
- Built the National Palace, the site for legislator
- improved roads between Cartago and Puntarenas
- strengthened coffee
- opened public lighting system
- the National Anthem was written during his presidency
- created Diocese of Costa Rica
- signed a treaty with Nicaragua that defined the border between them (Treaty Canas-Jerez)
- stimulated establishment of banks
- stimulated development of Guanacaste
- led National Campaign against Buccaneers
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