https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos <p><em>Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia </em>from Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de America Central <a href="https://cihac.fcs.ucr.ac.cr">(CIHAC)</a> specializes in History, in the analysis of historical trajectories from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and its purpose is to publish original research, submitted to peer review, to build new historical knowledge. It has been published since 1999, with a semi-annual periodicity in continuous modality (On-Line First Publication) and has the support of the <a href="https://escuelahistoria.fcs.ucr.ac.cr">Sch</a><a href="https://escuelahistoria.fcs.ucr.ac.cr/">ool of History </a>of the University of Costa Rica.</p> <p>This publication space is aimed at Central American and Central Americanist researchers in the different branches of history, the university population, and all those readers and authors interested in the presentation and evaluation of scientific articles on Costa Rican, Central American, Caribbean, Latin American, North American and global/world historiography. The publication is also encouraged in specific fields of historiography such as gender history, economic history, history of power and memory, colonial history, environmental history, history of science, history of inequality, marginality, and poverty, social history, among others, in addition to articles of a theoretical-methodological nature. It also publishes primary, unpublished and sources, book reviews, as well as databases that allow the approach to new research questions.</p> <p><em>Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia, </em>ISSN electronic: 1409-469X, is a work under:</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Licencia de Creative Commons" /> </a><em>Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia</em> <span data-is-focusable="true">is</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">licensed</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">under</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">a</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">Creative</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">Commons</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivative</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">Work</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">4.0</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">International</span> <span data-is-focusable="true">license.</span></p> <p> </p> Universidad de Costa Rica es-ES Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia 2215-3292 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Details of copyright</strong> <div> <p>Authors that publish with this journal must accept the following requirements:</p> </div> </div> <ul> <li class="show">The authors will conserve their copyrights and guarantee to the journal the right of their first paper publication, which, at the same time, will depend on&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">License Creative Commons, Attribution - NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. </a></li> <li class="show">The authors can assume other non-exclusive license agreements of distribution of the published work's current version (e. g. to place it in an institutional telematic archive or to publish it in a monographic volume) as long as it states the original publication in this Journal.</li> <li class="show">It is allowed and recommended to the author, to disseminate their works through Internet (for instance, in an institutional telematics file, or in their webpage) before and during the sending process. This could produce interesting changes and an increase the references from the published paper. (Look&nbsp;<a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">El efecto del acceso abierto</a>).</li> </ul> https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/57782 <p class="p1">This article analyzes the emergence and consolidation of the Florida Ice and Farm (FIFCO) brewing company, one of the most advanced and modern in the Costa Rican context. Founded in 1908, the company borders on a monopoly and is owned by the hegemonic factions of the local elite. Precisely, the objective of the research was to understand its crucial role as a source of wealth, alliances, and power of oligarchic families. Likewise, its peculiar relationships with the state apparatus, its tangle of subsidiaries, among other points, were studied. Methodologically, it is based on a business history linked to the elites, which not only addresses their corporate history, but also highlights their links with power. Finally, sources such as archival documents, newspapers and FIFCO reports were used.</p> Jorge Marchena Sanabria Copyright (c) 2025 Jorge Marchena Sanabria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 2025-02-06 2025-02-06 26 1 1 39