page_title: Dictatorship of the Tinoco Brothers
section_title: Foreign policy
hierarchical_section_title: Dictatorship of the Tinoco Brothers / Foreign policy
caption_attribution_description: Caption: Citizens of San Jose, Costa Rica, fleeing before the troops of President Tinoco, who are clearing the streets with bayonet and bullet. Not much has been learned of the Costa Rican revolution because of the strict censorship maintained by Tinoco's government.
context_page_description: The dictatorship of the Tinoco Brothers, also Tinochist or Peliquist Dictatorship, or Tinoco regime is the period of Costa Rica in which the military dictatorship led by Federico Tinoco Granados as de facto president and his brother José Joaquín Tinoco Granados as Minister of War was in place. It began after the 1917 Costa Rican coup d'état on January 27, 1917 and culminated with the departure of Tinoco from Costa Rica to France on August 13, 1919 three days after the murder of his brother and after a series of armed insurrections and massive civil protests known as the Sapoá Revolution and the 1919 student civic movement.
context_section_description: The government of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson refuses to recognize the coup government and even blocks Costa Rica's participation in the First World War with which Tinoco unsuccessfully sought to ingratiate himself with Washington.
  However, the US blockade and the Wilson administration's support for the anti-Tinocist opposition, in addition to the declaration of war that Costa Rica made to the German Empire, served Tinoco to justify the application of martial law and imprison hundreds without habeas corpus hundreds of opponents.
caption: Citizens of San Jose, Costa Rica, fleeing before the troops of President Tinoco - August 1919
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