Carlos Luis Fallas

Carlos Luis Fallas was born on 21 January 1909 in Alajuela. After two years of secondary school, he left at sixteen for Limón, where he worked on the docks and then in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company, before learning the shoemaker's trade in Alajuela. A communist militant, banished to the Atlantic coast in 1933, he led the great banana strike of 1934. A deputy in 1944, he commanded forces of the government side in 1948. He died on 7 May 1966; Congress declared him Benemérito de la Patria in 1977.

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• NovelMamita YunaiCarlos Luis Fallas · 1941not translated into EnglishLiterature