Figueres is reminded, among other things, of having respected the "Social Guarantees" (a series of social reforms beneficial to the popular classes enacted in the Calderón administration that were not repealed by Figueres after winning the war), for having abolished the army, approved women's suffrage, ended racial segregation (until 1949 blacks had no right to vote or leave certain areas) and the creation of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity.