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Luis Guillermo Solís

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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. He is a member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC). Solís led the field in the 2014 presidential election, and won the presidency in a landslide election, earning more votes than any presidential candidate in the history of the nation. Solís has a long academic and political career, culminating in his election as the first President of Costa Rica to be a member of the PAC. Since May 2017, Luis Guillermo Solis has been under fire after a report accused him of corruptly expediting the legal process of Chinese cement imports in favor of businessman and owner of Sinocem, Juan Carlos Bolaños, in a case known as Cementazo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luis Guillermo Solís is the 11,211th most popular politician (up from 12,773rd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 9th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Luis Guillermo Solís ranks 11,211 out of 19,576. Before him are Phoumi Vongvichit, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Duško Ivanović, Henryk Jabłoński, Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, and Osachi Hamaguchi. After him are Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia, Pál Losonczi, William P. Rogers, Henri Queuille, Clément Mouamba, and Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Luis Guillermo Solís ranks 135. Before him are Kevin Sorbo, Gennady Padalka, Luísa Diogo, Didier Auriol, Gary Peters, and Eddie Lawson. After him are Domenico Dolce, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Cindy Kiro, Oscar Schmidt, Alain Chabat, and Nancy J. Currie-Gregg.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís ranks 7 out of 134. Before him are Óscar Arias (1940), Chavela Vargas (1919), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), Keylor Navas (1986), and Abel Pacheco (1933). After him are Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), Christiana Figueres (1956), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), Harry Shum Jr. (1982), and José María Castro Madriz (1818).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís ranks 4. Before him are Óscar Arias (1940), Laura Chinchilla (1959), and Abel Pacheco (1933). After him are Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), and Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900).

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