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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez has received more than 141,452 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez is the 14,205th most popular politician (down from 12,300th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Costa Rica (down from 8th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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  • 2.99

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 14,205 out of 19,576. Before him are Boris Ponomarev, Eugene Burton Ely, Paavo Väyrynen, Charles Bolden, Al-Muhtadee Billah, and Virginia Hall. After him are Roque González Garza, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Helen of Zadar, Gopinath Bordoloi, Juan Bautista Pérez, and Ernest Bai Koroma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 357. Before him are Claire Bretécher, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Vicente Miera, Michael Sarrazin, and Adam Przeworski. After him are Ole Ernst, Billy McNeill, Jurandir de Freitas, Tilo Prückner, Imre Komora, and Zvonko Bego.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 18 out of 134. Before him are Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), and Federico Tinoco Granados (1868). After him are Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), Luis Alberto Monge (1925), Roberto Gayón (1905), José Joaquín Trejos Fernández (1916), and Daniel Oduber Quirós (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ranks 12. Before him are Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), and Federico Tinoco Granados (1868). After him are Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900), Mario Echandi Jiménez (1915), Luis Alberto Monge (1925), José Joaquín Trejos Fernández (1916), Daniel Oduber Quirós (1921), and Juan Rafael Mora Porras (1814).

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