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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

1940 - Today

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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría (born 9 January 1940) 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 (1966 - 1970); 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez is the 13,717th most popular politician (up from 14,202nd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 18th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 13,717 out of 19,576. Before him are Apolo Nsibambi, Mikhail Rodzianko, Daniel Morgan, Guido Gonzaga, Robert of Vermandois, and Rudolf IV, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim. After him are Norman Manley, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Iaret, Aymen Benabderrahmane, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, and Henri François d'Aguesseau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 322. Before him are Gheorghe Gruia, Vladimir Vasiliev, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Zhuang Zedong, Danilo Astori, and Apolo Nsibambi. After him are Anita Bryant, Alain Calmat, István Csom, Andrey Piontkovsky, Benoni Beheyt, and Zhanna Prokhorenko.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 16 out of 134. Before him are Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), Harry Shum Jr. (1982), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), and Federico Tinoco Granados (1868). After him are Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), José Joaquín Trejos Fernández (1916), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Adolfo Díaz (1875), and Luis Alberto Monge (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 10. Before him are Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), and Federico Tinoco Granados (1868). After him are Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), José Joaquín Trejos Fernández (1916), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Adolfo Díaz (1875), and Luis Alberto Monge (1925).

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