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GET TO
KNOW YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT:
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ
• Born: Oct. 13, 1940, in
Heredia, Costa Rica.
• Political experience:
Minister of national
planning and political economy
under President José Figueres in
the 1970s. Elected to the
legislature, he won the
presidency in 1986 on the ticket
of the center-left National
Liberation Party. After leaving
office in 1990, he established a
foundation, Arias for Peace,
which promotes dialogue about
peace, gender, inequality and
other subjects between disparate
sectors of civilian and
government life.
• Education: PhD in
political science from the
University of Essex, United
Kingdom.
• Nobel: Won the 1987
Nobel Peace Prize for his
successful efforts to forge
peace in Central America.
• Family: Divorced from
Margarita Penón; they have two
grown children.
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