
	Where results make sense

Topic: President of Costa Rica

Related Topics

List of Presidents of Costa Rica

Rafael Yglesias Castro

Costa Rica

Juan Rafael Mora Porras

Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich

Teodoro Picado Michalski

Politics of Costa Rica

List of political parties in Costa Rica

Rodrigo Alberto Carazo Odio

Abel Pacheco

Bernardo Soto Alfaro

Libertarian Movement Party

San Jose, Costa Rica

President of Ecuador

President of Colombia

	Costa Rica (10/05)
		Costa Rica's major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.
		Costa Rica used to be known principally as a producer of bananas and coffee, but pineapples have surpassed coffee as the number two agricultural export.
		Costa Rica is an active participant in the negotiation of the hemispheric Free Trade Area of the Americas as well as a member of the Cairns Group, which is pursuing global agricultural trade liberalization within the World Trade Organization.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2019.htm (3313 words)

	What's At Stake: Thank Costa Rica's new president for rejecting offshore oil drilling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the Costa Rican environmental agency rejected Harken's proposal because it did not comply with Costa Rican environmental laws and international standards, the company continued its pursuit by appealing to the Executive branch to overturn the decision prior to the change of administration.
		President Pacheco's announcement to resist this pressuretestified to his commitment to a sound environmental future for Costa Rica.
		The Talamanca region on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast is a lush tangle of tropical forests, mangrove swamps, white-sand beaches and magnificent coral reefs.
	actionnetwork.org /campaign/crocsty/explanation (238 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Costa Rica 2002
		Costa Rica is evidence that if you handle things with honesty and order, you can make a poor country survive and provide good services, mostly education and health, to its people.
		President Pacheco: I am not very happy about the Summit, but I am very happy about my country, because we were able to show that here on the Caribbean coast there is a small, peaceful a nation that is trying to save the planet.
		Costa Rica is a great contributor to world democracy and peace: you have the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Latin America and the UN University of Peace, just to mention a few.
	www.internationalreports.net /theamericas/costarica/2002/president.html (2437 words)

	Costa Rica, History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The art of gold working was practiced throughout Costa Rica for perhaps one thousand years before the Spanish conquest, and in the highlands was in fact more advanced than in the rest of the isthmus.
		Costa Rica, in the traditional view, became a "rural democracy," with no oppressed mestizo class resentful of the maltreatment and scorn of the Creoles.
		By contrast, in Costa Rica colonial institutions had been relatively weak and early modernization of the economy propelled the nation out of poverty and lay the foundations of democracy far earlier than elsewhere in the isthmus.
	www.photo.net /cr/moon/history.html (4451 words)

	Catholic World News : Pope meets President of Costa Rica
		The Costa Rican president, a practicing psychiatrist for most of his adult life, entered the media world in the 1970s, and turned to active politics in 1998.
		Catholicism is the official religion of Costa Rica, a country of about 3.9 million of whom roughly half live in the capital city, San José.
		President Pacheco de la Espriella, who was accompanied by his foreign minister, Roberto Tovar Faja, later met with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano (bio - news).
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28735 (259 words)

	List of Presidents of Costa Rica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following table contains a list of the presidents and heads of state of Costa Rica since Central American independence from Spain and Mexico.
		From 1823 to 1839 Costa Rica was a state within the United States of Central America; since then it has been an independent nation.
		Deposed by popular uprising; executed 15 September 1842.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Costa_Rica (127 words)

	Costa Rica president 'committed' to solving death of slain KU student \| LJWorld.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Costa Rica president 'committed' to solving death of slain KU student
		Costa Rica's president says he is committed to solving "the cruel murder of Shannon Martin, which has caused so much pain.
		KU and the University of Costa Rica have a 45-year-old exchange agreement, the oldest inter-university exchange in the western hemisphere.
	www.ljworld.com /section/costarica/story/123925 (498 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Costa Rica president asks OAS chief to resign over scandal
		SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Rica's president on Monday asked his predecessor, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, to resign as secretary-general of the Organization of American States because of alleged payments from a government contractor.
		"For the good name of Costa Rica and of the OAS itself, I ask that you immediately leave the post of secretary and return to the country" to face the allegations, President Abel Pacheco said in a publicly released letter to Rodriguez.
		Rodriguez told Costa Rican newspapers that he knows nothing about any money from Alcatel, saying that he had received a $140,000 personal loan from Lobo to finance his campaign for the OAS leadership.
	signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041004-1354-costarica-oas-scandal.html (434 words)

	Costa Rica
		Costa Rica was inhabited by an estimated 25,000 Indians when Columbus explored it in 1502.
		Costa Rica: Economy and Government - Economy and Government Costa Rica is an agricultural country, although industry is being developed...
		Costa Rica: History - History Early History through the Nineteenth Century Although Columbus skirted the Costa Rican...
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107430.html (637 words)

	Costa Rica - Overview: History of Costa Rica
		Costa Rica is different from the rest of Central America, indeed from the rest of Latin America, because its people distribute their wealth, land, and power far more equitably.
		Costa Rica, to its everlasting good fortune, was the most neglected of colonial Central America, in large part because it was farthest from the colonial governors based in Guatemala.
		But Costa Rica’s more equitable land tenure patterns and the absence of Indian-Ladino racial tension averted the class warfare and growing militarism that accompanied the coffee booms in some of its neighbors.
	www.infocostarica.com /history/history.html (947 words)

	Calderón Guardia, Rafael Ángel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As president, he brought Costa Rica into World War II on the Allied side and cooperated closely with the United States.
		Una lectura critica del proceso de concertacion nacional en Costa Rica, 1998-99 (1).(Gobierno Y Concertacion)
		Cafe y sociabilidad: el consumo del cafe en Costa Rica (1883-1950).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CalderonG1.asp (344 words)

	president of costa rica and other costa rica related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Costa Rica has sought concrete economic ties with its Central American neighbors rather than the...
		President of Costa Rica, Dr. Abel Pacheco, Visits ICMEC On April 11, 2003, ICMEC/NCMEC had the honor of hosting a visit by the President of Costa Rica, His Excellency Dr. Abel Pacheco...
		President Clinton's Trip to Mexico, Costa Rica, and Barbados May 5 - 12, 1997 History has given the people of the Americas a dazzling opportunity to build a community of nations committed to the values...
	www.nethorde.com /costa_rica/president-of-costa-rica.html (339 words)

	Costa Rica's president backs trade agreement - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Costa Rica was until recently a country that exported four major products: coffee, bananas, sugar and meat.
		I went and spoke the truth: that Costa Rica would not be interested in a Parlacen that sheltered suspicious characters from suspect regimes, an ineffective Parlacen with a limit of five representatives per nation, whose members received extra salary after choosing those representatives from Central American parliaments themselves.
		Costa Rica must be integrated into Central America and help Central American countries, because it cannot prosper by itself.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040603-043306-4101r.htm (1209 words)

	AllRefer.com - JosE Figueres Ferrer (Costa Rican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He rose to prominence as an outspoken critic of President CalderOn Guardia in 1942 and was exiled to Mexico (1942–44).
		As president from 1970 to 1974, he pushed further social and economic reforms.
		His son, JosE MarIa Figueres Olsen[Ol´sAn] Pronunciation Key, 1954–, was president of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Figueres.html (244 words)

	INDEX
		Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres delivered his final state of nation speech on Friday, May 1.
		"President Figueres is correct in his belief that security is a problem in Costa Rica," he said.
		Costa Rica welcomed the arrival of leading microprocessors Intel during Figueres term.
	www.academic.marist.edu /mwwatch/sp98/patrick6.htm (869 words)

	Thank Costa Rica's President Pacheco for Protecting the Caribbean Coast from Oil Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Your help is needed to support and thank the new President of Costa Rica, Dr. Abel Pacheco de la Espriella (President Pacheco), and the new Minister of the Environment, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, for their bold stand against oil development and for protection of their country's fragile and globally important ecosystems.
		In his inaugural address, new Costa Rican President, Dr. Abel Pacheco de la Espriella, declared a new era of "Peace with the Environment" decrying oil development and pledging to transform Costa Rica into an ecological power.
		Costa Rica is known through out the world as an international leader for protection of its natural resources.
	www.elaw.org /campaigns/info.asp?id=1137 (851 words)

	PRESS CONFERENCE BY COSTA RICA’S PRESIDENT
		PRESS CONFERENCE BY Abel Pacheco, President of Costa Rica, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today that his Government was opposed to human cloning on moral grounds and he hoped that the United Nations would reach a decision before the end of the year on a convention against human cloning.
		Flanked by Costa Rican Foreign Minister Roberto Tovar, he said, as a doctor, he was extremely preoccupied and concerned by the health situation in
		’s stance on human cloning, Foreign Minister Tovar said fate had made Costa Rica the leader on the issue in the United Nations. But now there were almost 70 co-sponsors and many more were prepared to fight for a convention against human cloning.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2004/pachecopc.doc.htm (332 words)

	President of Costa Rica's Speech!
		Costa Rica has been a country of immigrants.
		And, also because of these values and beliefs, Costa Rica and the United States have followed in the international arena a policy of friendship and solidarity with Israel.
		In 1948, Costa Rica -we are proud to say- voted in the General Assembly of the United Nations for the recognition of Israeli independence.
	www.costarica.com /awards/president-speech.html (789 words)

	Business Wire: President Of Costa Rica Inaugurates ATSI Telepo... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Of Costa Rica Inaugurates ATSI Teleport Facility.
		In speaking at the inauguration, president Figueres stressed the importance of strategic alliances, such as the one between ATSI and RACSA, in modernizing telecommunication services in Costa Rica.
		Smith stated "This is a historical moment for Costa Rica and ATSI, in that this is the first time that a teleport facility has been established between a private company and a government owned entity.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:19735295&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (472 words)

	The Republic of Costa Rica under President Rodrigues (May 1999 to April 2002)
		Costa Rican Ambassador to Washington underlined that the anti-drugs academy would be civilian rather than military in nature.
		A court in Costa Rica has thrown out controversial government proposals to partially privatise the country's telecommunications and electricity industry.
		Costa Rica is on the verge of serious agrarian conflict as unions and peasants fight reform measures they say would return rural lands to the hands of the wealthy few.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/index-gbb.html (281 words)

	Backstreet Bookshop
		Costa Rica has a fine park system and has long been the most popular Central American country for visiting naturalists.
		Carrol Henderson, an experienced wildlife biologist, traveler, and tour leader in Costa Rica, has chosen the species that ecotourists are most likely to see, along with a selection of rarer, sought-after animals.
		This ultimate guide to Costa Rica takes readers to that beautiful country as few other travel guides do--from the capital of San Jose to the plethora of outdoor activities.
	www.maptak.com /backst/books1.html (1760 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - Costa Rica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Republic of Costa Rica is in Central America.
		The president of Costa Rica, Juan Rafael Mora, raised an army consisting mainly of farmers armed with machetes.
		Costa Rica's army was abolished in December 1948 after anti-Government forces took over following a dispute of the presidential election results.
	www.shagtown.com /days/costarica.html (227 words)

	Costa Rica
		Costa Rica map.com is a great web site for research on the landscape of Costa Rica.
		The section on the people of Costa Rica will give you a chance to see what the inhabitants of this country are like.
		After looking at the other sites for Costa Rica look at this one to reinforce what the country is like.
	www.cwu.edu /~williamm/Costa_Rica_link.html (629 words)

	CNN.com - Spanish president visits Costa Rica for talks - November 19, 2000
		SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar arrived in Costa Rica for talks expected to include the sensitive issue of banana exports to Europe.
		Aznar arrived in Costa Rica late Saturday after attending the Ibero- American summit, and traveled to the Playa Grande beach, about 175 miles (275 kms) northwest of San Jose to inaugurate a Spanish-funded sea turtle observation post.
		Aznar and Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez are spent Sunday at the beach, a sea turtle nesting ground, before heading back to San Jose for talks.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/19/costarica.spain.ap (330 words)

	03.12.2002 - President of Costa Rica to lead UC Berkeley Charter Day celebration, addressing freedom, security and trade
		Rodríguez's public career began almost the moment he graduated from UC Berkeley, when he returned to Costa Rica and became director of the Central Bank and minister of national planning for his country.
		At the same time, he began his academic career, holding an appointment as a professor of mathematical economics and equilibrium theory at the University of Costa Rica.
		During his four-year term as president, which ends in May, Rodríguez has attracted foreign investment to Costa Rica, controlled government spending and debt, and managed inflation while safeguarding his nation's social advances and attacking poverty.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/03/12_chartd.html (323 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Former president of Costa Rica seeks Antigua-Barbuda's support in OAS
		ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Former President of Costa Rica Miguel Angel Rodriguez, on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer to canvass support for his candidacy to the position of Secretary General of the Organisation of American States OAS.
		Former President Rodriguez outlined that now is a difficult time for the OAS especially in relation to the matters of Haiti and Venezuela.
		Prime Minister Spencer during the discussion assured Former President Rodriguez that CARICOM is supporting his candidacy for Secretary General of the OAS and pointed out that no member of CARICOM or Central America has ever held the position.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2004/05/19/oas.htm (408 words)

	Press Release Archive: Miguel Angel Rodriquez, Former President of Costa Rica, to be Featured Speaker at GW Law School ...
		Miguel Angel Rodriquez, former president of Costa Rica and J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, will discuss recent changes in human rights law in Costa Rica as part of the GW Law School Enrichment Lecture Series.
		President Rodriguez’s experience with the Costa Rican government includes his term as president (1998-2000); presidential candidate and leading member of the Social Christian Party (1994-98); congressman in the Legislative Assembly (1990-94); president of the Legislative Assembly (1991-92); minister of the presidency (1970); and minister of planning (1968-69).
		He was a visiting professor of economics at the Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1969), and has been a professor of economics at the University of Costa Rica since 1963 and at the Universidad Autonoma de Centro America since 1978.
	www.gwu.edu /~media/pressreleases/10-29-02-Rodriquez.htm (297 words)

	The Republic of Costa Rica under President Figueres (May 1994 to April 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ottón Solís is a member of the Costa Rican National Assembly and an adviser to President José Figueres.
		Formerly minister of economic planning in the government of President Oscar Arias, he subsequently served as president of the Economic and Social Council of the OAS.
		Wealthy businessperson and economist Miguel Angel Rodriguez of the opposition Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) won Costa Rica's Feb. 1 presidential elections with 46.88% of the vote.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/index-gba.html (135 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)