Costa Rica and it's pacifism

Costa Rica was apparently poor and remote compared to other Spanish colonies, and so developed a more egalitarian society with a larger presence of freeholding farmers.

Is there other sources of possible 'problems'? A population of afro-ricans, natives.. an oppressed group?
 
Costa Rican pacifism

;) Aesir is bang-on. That is the traditional explanation. Without enslaved indigenous people, small-time bosses couldn't get rich and powerful. The colonists had to cooperate.
 
Hello Ubergeek! :D African workers were brought in from Caribbean countries to work on railroad construction in Limon, the Carribean coastal province, after the Chinese workers died of malaria. Until the 1948 revolution which abolished the army and gave the country a constitution, blacks were forbidden by law fom traveling out of Limon province. To my knowledge there was never an armed liberation movement or black political party. Don't know why.
 
Hello Ubergeek! :D African workers were brought in from Caribbean countries to work on railroad construction in Limon, the Carribean coastal province, after the Chinese workers died of malaria. Until the 1948 revolution which abolished the army and gave the country a constitution, blacks were forbidden by law fom traveling out of Limon province. To my knowledge there was never an armed liberation movement or black political party. Don't know why.

'Black communism' or something, like Black Panthers. A possibility...
 
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