At first a large supply store in his hometown of San Ramón, this eventually grew to become one of Costa Rica's largest coffee firms.

His half-brother, Franjo J. Orlich, the namesake of the firm, moved from Costa Rica to Pennsylvania and worked for Bethlehem Steel as a Pattern Maker in the Castings Plant.

[citation needed] Following that, the National Liberation Party was founded in the Orlich family farm in La Paz, San Ramón.

He ran again in 1962, against the defeated 1948 leader Dr Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, and won the presidency.

[4][5][6] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.