Luis guillermo solis biography books
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Professor to lead independent electoral observations in Guatemala
Former Costa Rican President and FIU professor Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera will lead an independent team charged with observing national elections in Guatemala this summer.
Solís, who served as president of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018, was chosen bygd the Organization of American States (OAS) to head its independent electoral mission to Guatemala, which will hold general elections for president and Congress on June 16.
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro announced the appointment on social media, saying it was a “priority of the OAS” to support the “strengthening of democracy” in its member states.
“This important mission will take place amidst a context of political instability in one of the key actors of the Central American community,’’ said Solís, who began his tenure as professor at FIU’s Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Cente
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Luis Guillermo Solís
President of Costa Rica
Elected president of Costa Rica in 2014, Solís has a long background in education and politics. He studied history at the University of Costa Rica, going on to earn a master's degree in Latin American studies from Tulane University. He was an associate professor of history at the University of revben Rica from 1981-1987, serving as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Michigan from 1983-1985. He also worked at Florida Atlantic University where he was coordinator of the Center for the Administration Justice and a researcher for the Latin American and Caribbean Center.
His political experience includes serving as an tjänsteman of Costa Rica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as ambassador for Central American affairs and director of foreign policy. Solís has published more than 10 books and written many articles for newspapers and magazines.
Solís will be the second Costa Rican president to give a Landon Lecture, joining Oscar Arias San
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President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera of Costa Rica.
President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera of Costa Rica was inaugurated today as ITU Patron for Youth and ICT at a special ceremony in Geneva.
This builds on the BYND2015 Youth Summit organized by ITU in San José, Costa Rica in 2013 where young participants from around the world called on governments to provide more flexible, dynamic and open means of governance to reach more people more easily than presently possible.
They emphasized that the key to a successful development paradigm will be innovation and asked for education systems that equip students with not just theoretical knowledge, but with a practical mix of marketable, innovative and relevant skills needed to compete in the global digital economy.
Youth has become a priority issue for Member States within the UN system. Almost half the world’s population is under age 25. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates some 72-73 million young people (defin