Tinoco 's figure became synonymous of authoritarianism and dictatorship in Costa Rica and became something like the villain of Costa Rican history , to the point that even the presence of his portrait in the Presidents Hall of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica it has been controversial . It is practically the only dictatorship that Costa Ricans remember despite the existence of other previous authoritarian governments especially in the nineteenth century ( Samuel Stone says that only two governments could be considered genuinely dictatorships in Costa Rica ; Tomás Guardia and Tinoco ) . Although there was a further rupture of the constitution order with the Civil War of 1948 , the subsequent de facto government of José Figueres is not usually considered a dictatorship because it handed over power 18 months later as agreed . Tinoco became the only dictator of Costa Rican history throughout the twentieth century , something unusual in Latin America . However , unlike other dictatorships such as the military dictatorship of Chile , the Guatemalan genocide , the National Reorganization Process and the Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay , the Tinoco dictatorship and its events are not thoroughly studied or commemorated in Costa Rican society , perhaps because of its remoteness in time
Guatemalan genocide
Guatemalan genocide
Dictatorship of the Tinoco Brothers