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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.
Abel Pacheco de la Espriella (born 1933) 8 May 2002 8 May 2006 Social Christian Unity: 2002: Presidential re-election re-instated. 45: Óscar Arias Sánchez (born 1940) 8 May 2006 8 May 2010 National Liberation: 2006: Second term. 46: Laura Chinchilla Miranda (born 1959) 8 May 2010 8 May 2014 National Liberation: 2010: First female president of ...
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.
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 ...
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Arias had been seen as the front runner throughout the campaign. Arias served as President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990. He is best known worldwide for his role in the signing of the Esquipulas Peace Agreement which is regarded as the crucial plan which led to the eventual end to the series of civil wars that took place throughout Central America, most notably in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and ...
Costa Rica was under a strong two-party system at the time. The country was undergoing military tensions with neighboring Nicaragua due to the recently happened Sandinista Revolution and Nicaragua's dictator Daniel Ortega 's fighting of the right-wing Contra rebel guerilla in its southern border disregarding the official limits and confronting ...
Luis Carlos Arias (born 1985), Colombian footballer; Matthew Arias (born 1991), Mexican-American musician and picture editor; Maximiliano Arias (born 1988), Uruguayan footballer; Moisés Arias (born 1994), American actor; Óscar Arias (born 1940), former President of Costa Rica; Pepe Arias (1900–1967), Argentine actor and comedian