By Vicki Cox
Oscar Arias Sanchez used to be provided the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to finish the civil unrest raging in different crucial American nations at the moment. This biography, which lines Sanchez's lifetime and his efforts to advertise growth in his native land, exhibits how desire and commitment can triumph within the face of uncertainty and conflict."
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One vice president is included in the cabinet. Women have held several government positions, including vice president. The legislature is the National Assembly. It is composed of 57 members (diputados). They also are elected for four years and may serve two terms. National elections are held on the first Sunday of February. A 1969 constitutional amendment limited the president to one four-year term. Oscar Arias challenged that in 2001 and eventually won a change in the ruling. The largest political party is the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional or PLN).
We have to have technical vocational schools. ”76 The second elephant-sized problem that Monge had left to Arias was a national debt of $5 billion. Despite its image as a His Own Man productive democracy, Costa Rica’s government spent more money than it had. It, even more than the other Central American countries, depended on foreign aid to survive. The primary source for its aid was the United States. Costa Rica is second only to Israel in its dependency on America’s goodwill. 77 With a war raging next door, and sometimes within Costa Rica itself, Costa Rica staggered under the influx of immigrants and was isolated from potential investors.
31 Arias’s sense of fair play required him to say unpopular things. He reminded the public that cutting down the government would be cutting down jobs. Since 20 percent of the “If I Wanted to Lose, It Wouldn’t Be Possible” population worked for the government, it seemed likely that many of the people he was addressing would be the ones to go. “We had a choice between a welfare state and a garrison state,” Arias said, “and we chose the former. ”32 These were all good points, but they neither made for a very exciting campaign nor produced throngs of cheering admirers.