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Excerpt from Fertile Lands of Friendship: The Florida-Costa Rican Experiment in International Agricultural Cooperation In many respects the history of Costa Rica is one of common struggle with other Latin American nations against Spain. Costa Rica's independence became affirmed in 1850, and its colonizing history started in 1564 when Juan Vasquez de Coronado trans ported 50 families from the Galicia and Aragon regions of Spain to begin the first permanent colonization settlement. These people were said to have been farm folks and they carried horses, cows, and swine to the new homes which'they founded in fertile valleys and river lowlands. In their Historia de Costa Rica Carlos Monge and Ernesto J. Wender state that the small property early distinguished Costa Rica from the rest Of the continent, and thus it may be unique in the social and human evolution of Latin America. It made neither Slaves nor servants; it created individualism and set high ideals. By the end Of the eighteenth century pride in the ownership Of property and the sentiment Of equality had become deeply ingrained in all Costa Ricans. In fact, the political stability Of Costa Rica has Often been attributed to this early system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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