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She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first and so far only woman to become President of Costa Rica. [4] She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010. [5] [6] After leaving office, she taught at Georgetown University in 2016. [7]
Interim president. Former vice-president of Teodoro Picado Michalski. (31b) José Figueres Ferrer (1906–1990) 8 May 1948 8 November 1949 Social Democratic: De facto: Came to power in the Civil War. Returned power to elected president after re-organizing the government. 31: Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891–1973) 8 November 1949 8 November 1953 ...
Located on a lush hillside, Territorio de Zaguates -- or Land of the Strays -- cares for hundreds of the country's homeless dogs. The luckiest stray dogs in the world live at this sanctuary in ...
Rodrigo Alberto de Jesús Chaves Robles (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈtʃaβes ˈroβles]; born 10 June 1961) is a Costa Rican politician and economist who is the 49th and current President of Costa Rica since 2022. He was previously Minister of Finance from 2019 to 2020 during the presidency of Carlos Alvarado Quesada. [2]
Territorio de Zaguates ("kingdom of strays" [1] or "land of the strays" [2] in English) [a] is a free-range no-kill dog sanctuary in Costa Rica. [4] Sheltering more than 1,000 dogs at any given time, the sanctuary has rescued more than 12,000 dogs. Its creative campaign, "When you adopt a mutt, you adopt a unique breed", has increased adoptions ...
The president appoints the Council of Ministers. [4] Due to the abolition of the military of Costa Rica in 1948, the president is not a commander-in-chief, unlike the norm in most other countries, although the Constitution does describe him as commander-in-chief of the civil defense public forces. [5] From 1969 to 2005, the president was barred ...
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis ɣiˈʝeɾmo soˈlis riˈβeɾa]; born 25 April 1958) is a Costa Rican politician and educator who was the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. [2]
Mary Denisse Munive Angermüller (born 10 April 1981) is a Costa Rican physician and politician who is the Second Vice President of Costa Rica. She assumed office on 8 May 2022. She assumed office on 8 May 2022.