Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is a Costa Rican economist,lawyer,businessman and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. He was minister of planning from 1968 to 1970 and minister of the presidency in 1970 during the administration of Jose Joaquin Trejos Fernandez;member of the board of the Costa Rican Central Bank from 1966 to 1969;congressman from 1990 to 1993,serving as president of the Legislative Assembly during the 1991 to 1992 period;and was elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2004. He voluntarily stepped down from this post to return to his country to face allegations of financial wrongdoing during his presidential tenure in Costa Rica. On April 27 of 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison,but this ruling was later reversed in a December 2012 decision by an appeals court,which found him innocent of all charges.
JoséMaría Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican businessman and politician,who served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. He also ran for president in the 2022 presidential election but was defeated by Rodrigo Chaves.
Teodoro Picado Michalski was the president of Costa Rica for four years.
The University of Costa Rica is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica,in Central America. Its main campus,Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio,is located in San Pedro Montes de Oca,in the province of San José. It is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning in Costa Rica,originally established as the Universidad de Santo Tomás in 1843. Approximately 45,000 students attend UCR throughout the year.
Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election,where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. 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. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.
The history of the Jews in Costa Rica dates back to the Spanish conquest with the arrival of many Sephardic converts known as Marranos who escaped from the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in the city of Cartago and its surroundings. They hid their Jewish past by all means,making even their descendants have no idea of it.
RenéCastro Salazar,was FAO's Climate,Biodiversity,Land and Water Department Assistant-Director General and a former Costa Rican politician.
Marcela Guerrero Campos is the fourth deputy from San Joséfor the 2014 to 2018 assembly. Guerrero is a member of the Citizens' Action Party and served as their Vice-President.
The Stellarator of Costa Rica 1 is a small modular stellarator for the magnetic confinement of plasma located at Cartago,Costa Rica. It is developed by the plasmaTEC group of the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications at Costa Rica Institute of Technology. It began operation as Latin America's first stellarator on 29 June 2016.
Juan Diego Castro Fernández is a Costa Rican lawyer and politician,former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica. Castro is a Defense lawyer who studied Law and Criminal science at the University of Costa Rica and has a Doctorate degree in Mediation from Universidad La Salle. Castro was Minister of Public Safety between 1994 and 1997 during the presidency of JoséMaría Figueres (PLN). He became the first cabinet member to receive a Motion of no confidence by the Legislative Assembly when he summoned police forces to fence off Parliament as a means to press for the reform of the Penal Code. Subsequently,Castro resigned as Minister of Safety and was named Minister of Justice. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency as the nominee of the conservative-leaning National Integration Party in the 2018 Costa Rican general election. Castro has been compared unfavorably to US President Donald Trump and other right-wing antiestablishment and right-wing populist figures.
Eduardo Octavio Trejos Lalli is a Costa Rican internationalist,private consultant and politician. Trejos is the current Costa Rican representative in the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. Trejos was also Director of National Intelligence and Security and has held the position of Deputy Foreign Minister,interim Foreign Minister and Ambassador of Costa Rica to Nicaragua
The Founding Junta of the Second Republic was a de facto government which existed in the Republic of Costa Rica from May 8,1948,to November 8,1949,with the overthrow of the constitutional president Teodoro Picado Michalski,by a group of revolutionaries headed by JoséFigueres Ferrer.
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022,to elect the president,two vice-presidents,and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 40% of the votes,a runoff was held on 3 April 2022,between the top two candidates,JoséMaría Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves Robles.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship is the ministry in charge of the foreign policy of Costa Rica,including the management of diplomatic missions around the world and their personnel.
The Global Standards Symposium (GSS) is a statutory meeting that precedes the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly. GSS provides a high-level forum for discussion and coordination open to all. The GSS was created by the ITU's treaty-making conference,the Plenipotentiary Conference 2006 in Antalya,Turkey with Resolution 122.
The Ministry of Science,Innovation,Technology and Telecommunications is part of the government of Costa Rica,it was created on 26 June 1990.
Paola Vega Castillo is the Minister of Science,Innovation,Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica. Prior to her appointment as Minister of Science,Innovation,Technology and Telecommunications in June 2020,Vega Castillo was in the same ministry as Vice Minister of Science and Technology since May 2018.
Jorge Manuel Dengo Obregón was a civil engineer from Costa Rica who served as First Vice President of Costa Rica. He was elected as Vice President on February 2,1986. He belonged to the National Liberation Party. He played a leading role in the founding of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute.
Marco Feoli Villalobos is a Costa Rican lawyer and university professor,and currently a member of the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture at the United Nations. Feoli was previously the Vice Minister of Justice and Peace of Costa Rica during the government of President Luis Guillermo Solís. Feoli is the third Costa Rican to serve on the subcommittee. He is also a university professor at the National University of Costa Rica.
