The New York Times, August 15, 1919, NEW COSTA RICA PRESIDENT; Tinoco Escaped from Limon. (query.nytimes.com), Julio Acosta has been named Provisional President of the republic. He has designated Francisco Aguilar Barquero to arrange for the holding of free. (query.nytimes.com PDF).
The New York Times, August 18, 1919, Exiled President of Costa Rica Blames Nicaragua for Murder of His Brother.DETAILS OF ASSASSINATION Was Acting for the President and Was Shot in the Back While onWay for Official Conference. (query.nytimes.com), Federico Tinoco, for the last two and a half years President of Costa Rica, in a statement to the correspondent on his arrival here today, said he believed the assassin of his brother, Jose Joaquin Tinoco, had come from Nicaragua, and that the assassination had been planned in Nicaragua and Washington. (query.nytimes.com PDF).
