José María Figueres Olsen

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José María Figueres Olsen

president of Costa Rica

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In 1994 PLN candidate José María Figueres Olsen (the son of three-time president José Figueres Ferrer) won the presidency, defeating the PUSC’s Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría, though the PLN failed to win an outright majority in the Legislative Assembly. Figueres’s policy prescriptions for Costa Rica’s ailing economy—spending cuts and…
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In 1994 PLN candidate José María Figueres Olsen (the son of three-time president José Figueres Ferrer) won the presidency, defeating the PUSC’s Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría, though the PLN failed to win an outright majority in the Legislative Assembly. Figueres’s policy prescriptions for Costa Rica’s ailing economy—spending cuts and…
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