Prensa, propaganda electoral y comunismo en Costa Rica durante las décadas de 1930 y 19401

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that in the denominated “bourgeois” press and in the electoral propaganda of the 1930 and 1940 decades, were formed anti-Communist discourses that favored the political and cultural insertion of the Communist Party of Costa Rica, and promoted social change by institutional ways. The presence that such discourses reached in the public sphere, contributed that the Costa Rican left remained like the only organization of its kind in Central America that was not illegalized and, therefore, could compete systematically in the elections of the period 1932-1948.