Julio Acosta García

For other persons with the same or similar name, see Julio Garcia disambiguation page.

Julio Acosta García
President of Costa Rica
In office 8 May 1920 – 8 May 1924
Preceded by	Francisco Aguilar Barquero (interim president)
Succeeded by	Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (second term)
Personal details
Born	(1872-05-23)May 23, 1872 San Ramón, Costa Rica
Died	July 6, 1954(1954-07-06) (aged 82)
Political party	Constitutional Party

Julio Acosta García (23 May 1872 – 6 July 1954) served as President of Costa Rica from 1920 to 1924.

He was born in San Ramón, Alajuela, to Don Juan Vicente Acosta and Doña Jesus García.

Having served as foreign minister since 1915,^[1] after the 1917 coup by the brothers Federico Tinoco and Joaquín Tinoco, Acosta escaped to El Salvador, but led a counter-revolution, entering San José on 13 September 1919. He was elected president on 7 December.

In 1921 he nearly went to war with Panama over a border dispute, which ended with intervention (including the landing of troops) by the United States.

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