When Marvin Alonso Carballo Vargas was born on 30 October 1939, in Orotina, Alajuela, Costa Rica, his father, Miguel Bertali del Socorro Carballo Carvajal, was 35 and his mother, Belarmina Elba Victoria de Jesús Vargas Arguedas, was 28.
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Civil War. Rafael Angel Calderon Guradia refuses to step down for election winner Otilio Ulate. Don Pepe Figueres Ferrer leads the revolution against Calderon and topples the government after 40 days of fighting.
The Central American countries sign a peace plan. Devised by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez, it is signed by the Central American countries of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala which have been in the midst of civil wars. Arias wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
Public workers strike in protest at free trade deal with the U.S. Costa Rica is the only country in the region that has yet to ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Carlos, Jorge, Manuel, Pedro, Roberto, Enrique, Jesus, Juan, Luis, Fernando, Francisco.
Spanish and Galician: from carballo ‘oak’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous oak tree or in an oak wood, or a habitational name from any of several villages so named in Galicia.
Asturian-Leonese: topographic name from a Castilianized form of carbayu ‘oak’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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