Laura Chinchilla

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Laura Chinchilla Miranda (Spanish: [ˈlawɾa tʃinˈtʃiɟa miˈɾanda]; born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican politician who was 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 woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.

After leaving office, she taught at Georgetown University in 2016. Chinchilla is co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank and the vice-president of Club de Madrid. Chinchilla previously served as a Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

Personal life

Chinchilla was born in Carmen Central, San José in 1959. She is the daughter of Rafael Ángel Chinchilla Fallas, a former comptroller of Costa Rica, and Emilce Miranda Castillo. She married Mario Alberto Madrigal Díaz on 23 January 1982 and divorced on 22 May 1985.

Chinchilla met her second husband, José María Rico Cueto, a Spanish lawyer who held Canadian citizenship, in 1990 while both were working as consultants for the Center for the Administration of Justice at the Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The couple had a son, José María Rico Chinchilla, in 1996. Chinchilla married Rico on 26 March 2000. She was widowed on 15 April 2019, when her husband José María Rico died due to Alzheimer's.

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Political career

Chinchilla graduated from the University of Costa Rica and obtained her master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Chinchilla served as an NGO advisor in Latin America and Africa before deciding on legislative reform and national security issues. She continued to serve in the José Marra Olsen administration as vice-minister of public safety (1994–1996) and minister of public safety (1996–1998). She served as a deputy for San José, Costa Rica, from 2002 to 2006.

Chinchilla was one of two vice presidents nominated under the second Arias administration (2006-2010). In 2008, she resigned as vice president in order to prepare for the presidency in 2010. She gained the Partido Nacional (PLN) primary by a 15 percent margin over her nearest competitor, on June 7, 2009, and was subsequently named as the party's presidential candidate.

Chinchilla was the Observation Mission sent by the OAS to Mexico in June 2015 federal election, as well as the Observation Electoral Mission during the 2016 elections in Brazil and Paraguay.

Partido Liberación Nacional de Chinchilla is a member of the Socialist International, whose motto is "progressive politics for a happier world."

Baroness Kinnock, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Minister with primary responsibility for Central America, applauded Chinchilla's as the first female President of Costa Rica. Kinnock also lauded Chinchilla for announcing that the new government's forward-thinking strategy against climate change would continue to thrive, and that the UK will continue to collaborate with Costa Rica on this critical topic in 2010.

Chinchilla's pro-free trade policies were supposed to continue unchanged in the previous government's pro-free trade policies. She is regarded as a social conservative. She opposes gay unions but has stated explicitly that a legal framework is required to guarantee fundamental rights to same-sex couples. Under normal circumstances, she favors keeping the country's ban on abortions.

The Costa Rican economy had been affected by the international crisis of 2007 and 2008 at the time of Chinchilla's inauguration. Chinchilla developed a government plan with a holistic security focus on human safety, which included four main elements: economic stability and competitiveness, social care and welfare, citizen protection, and social stability, as well as environmental and development.

According to ECLAC results, Chinchilla helped the economy recover from the effects of the global crisis of 2007-2013, which grew at an average rate of 4.4 percent in recent years, but it had remained stable in recent years. According to the World Economic Forum and the World Bank, Chinchilla also made an improvement in the country's competitiveness indicators, as well as the process of integrating Costa Rica into the OECD.

Prioritizing the development of a comprehensive roadmap for early childhood care was given the highest priority in social issues. Chinchilla's government has established a network of care centers that support the children as well as their mothers who wish to work in the field. International organisations had recognized this initiative.

In reaction to Costa Rica's growing concerns about health, Chinchilla's political platform emphasized anti-crime law. The country had a high crime rate in the majority of cases in 2010, which heightened the state's image as a guarantor of justice and safety in 2010. The Citizen Security and Social Peace Policy (POLSEPAZ) was created after a citizen survey, defining the main tactical lines of action and the need to implement a comprehensive, sustainable, and state strategy on the subject.

With Chinchilla's implementation of her plans and the prevention, surveillance, and sanctions activities that were carried out, it was possible to reduce crime rises and decrease homicide rates, as well as decrease intentional homicides against women, most of which are linked to domestic violence or femicide. These crimes dropped by almost 70% during Chinchilla's term.

Chinchilla's campaign for the production of clean energy, which equals 90 percent of electricity generation from renewable sources at the end of her term, was demonstrated by the government's environmental variable.

Through Chinchilla's expansion of marine control zones and a strong fight against shark finning, equal importance was given to the protection of the seas.

Chinchilla was the least popular president in Latin America with a 13% approval rate in 2013, just behind Porfirio Lobo of Honduras.

Costa Rica had a lot of economic problems at the end of Chinchilla's presidency. Public debt was at 51% of GDP, unemployment was on the rise, and 20% of the population lived below the poverty line, despite record-breaking growth.

During her tenure, improvements were made in defense, and the murder rate, which was initially ten for every [1] 100,000 residents, has decreased drastically [2]. The WHO had once ranked as a "social pandemic," but it has since shifted dramatically in years. [3] Archived from August 22, 2016 at the Wayback Machine.

Education was one of Chinchilla's top priorities. The government took action Article 78 of Costa Rica's Constitution, The Strengthening Education Effort, whereby the government must direct 8% of its funds to education. [4] During her tenure, the real figure hit 8.2%, the highest figure in the region.

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In October 2010, Nicaraguan forces occupied islands in the San Juan River delta. The Nicaraguan and Costa Rican governments have occupied the land. Any commentators opined that the Nicaraguan incident was possibly connected with President Daniel Ortega's reelection bid. The Costa Rican government retaliated in reaction to the Nicaraguan government's defiance. Costa Rica tried to bring the lawsuit before the International Court of Justice. President Chinchilla decided to build a road along the river in response to what she and her government saw as a Nicaraguan incursion of Costa Rican territories by mid-2011. The Road in Spain was named "Ruta 1858, Juan Rafael Mora Porras" to honor a Costa Rican hero who led the country in the battle against William Walker's forces, who had proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and sought to resurrect slavery in Central America.

More than 150 kilometers would have traveled on the highway. (Contraoria General de la Republica) A executive order enabled the government to ignore environmental control and oversight from the General Comptroller. Before the road was announced, no environmental or engineering studies were published. Mismanagement and corruption had been suspected. An official inquiry into allegations of misconduct has been launched by Ministerio Publico (Costa Rican attorney general) in response to allegations of misconduct. Chinchilla fired Francisco Jiménez, minister of public works and transportation, as a result of the Chinchilla affair, which was not explained by the government. (in Spanish).

Chinchilla introduced and signed the National Network of Care Act, which is intended to provide health and assistance to children and the elderly.

In Costa Rica, Chinchilla has reacted angrily to any amendment of the constitution aimed at separating church and state. Costa Rica is now a Roman Catholic republic, according to the constitution. Her position contrasts with that of former President scar Arias Sánchez, who favors the establishment of a secular country.

She is against using the morning after drug, which is outlawed in Costa Rica.

Chinchilla has stated that although she supports LGBT rights and condemns discrimination based on sexual orientation, she believes that marriage should take place between a man and a woman, and that, despite this, she favors a different legal framework for same-sex couples. On July 4, 2013, she signed new legislation recognizing civil partnerships that can be extended to same-sex unions. She also stated that she would not oppose same-sex marriage if it was legally recognized by the country's courts.

The President continues Costa Rica's leadership in these areas, as she announced the film Odyssey 2050 of 'Public and Cultural Interest' in May 2011.

According to the World Economic Forum, Chinchilla was rated as one of Central America's most influential women in 2016.

Post-politics career

Chinchilla has taught at Georgetown University at the Institute of Politics and Public Service, is also the titular of the Cathedra José Bonifacio, a student at the University of So Paulo, since 2017, and is the current Latin American Chair of Citizenship in the Montere University's School of Government and Higher Education.

Chinchilla has been president of She Works, a company focusing on women's liberation, since 1996, and she has served as a rapporteur for the Telecommunications Organization of Latin America's freedom of expression.

Chinchilla served on the advisory board of the UN Development Programme's annual Human Development Report (UNDP), co-chaired by Thomas Piketty and Tharman Shanmugaratnam. In 2020, she was her country's nominee to head the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Mauricio Claver-Carone, the United States' nominee, dropped her campaign just before the election, condemning a process that has been seen favoring US President Donald Trump's nomination Mauricio Claver-Carone.

Chinchilla has held various other positions, including the following:

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