Many years later, in 1944 - 1948, the President of Costa Rica was Teodoro Picado Michalski, who descended from Poles. His mother, Jadwiga Michalska, was born in Krakow, the third largest town in Poland. During her study in London, she met a Costa Rican doctor, Teodoro Picado Morin, and married him in 1898. They settled in Costa Rica, where on January 10th 1900 was born their son Teodoro.