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Óscar Arias Sánchez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈoskaɾ ˈaɾjas]; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
Rodrigo Gerardo de Jesús Arias Sánchez (born 26 July 1946) is a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who has been President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica since 2022. He also served as Minister of the Presidency during the two governments of his brother, Óscar Arias Sánchez , from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010.
On February 15, 1987, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias submitted a Peace Plan which evolved [clarification needed] from this meeting. During 1986 and 1987, the "Esquipulas Process" was established, in which the Central American heads of state agreed on economic cooperation and a framework for peaceful conflict resolution.
It is after this time that Costa Rica enters a two-party system with PLN and PUSC as the two main political forces and between the two 90% of the vote casting. However, in the 2000s, a new party was founded by many former PLN and PUSC leaders, among them former minister and deputy Ottón Solís , former First Lady Margarita Penón (Óscar Arias ...
Category: Costa Rican songs. ... National anthem of Costa Rica This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 21:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Starting as a band that mixed music with artistic visual elements such as body painting, theater props, lightning and scenery, Gandhi created a good following in the early days in Costa Rica. But it was until they released their first album in 1997 En el Jardín del Corazón that things really started to happen for the band. A sold-out concert ...
Costa Rica ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on August 21, 1990, meaning it is legally obliged to uphold the articles it entails. [24] [25] Costa Rica's president in 2009, Oscar Arias Sanchez, stated this convention ‘changed generations’, seeing large children rights improvements across the county.
The Universidad de Costa Rica has a concert band and an orchestra, besides an early-music group and several chamber music groups. The National University , Universidad Nacional, has a resident string quartet and a Symphony Orchestra , which had its very successful premiere at the National Theatre in San José on May 10, 2007, conducted by ...