Federico Tinoco Granados

Federico Tinoco Granados was a Costa Rican dictator between 1917 and 1919 after making a coup d'etat in the country. Vajo his government experienced a great repression and violation of civil rights as well as a handling of public funds causing a great military revelation against him. Also the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, offered to deliver the island of Coco to the United States, and allow the US navy to establish a naval base and use the waters and ports of Costa Rica. These offers were not answered. Nor did the suspension of relations between Costa Rica and Germany and the declaration of war against it cause Wilson to vary his policy. Finally he went into exile on his own in France where he would die in 1931.