Oscar Arias Sanchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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24 Facts About Oscar Arias
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Oscar Arias was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
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Oscar Arias received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis.
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Oscar Arias was a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
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Oscar Arias concluded his secondary schooling at the Saint Francis College in the capital city of San Jose.
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Oscar Arias then went to the United States and enrolled in Boston University with the intention of studying medicine, but he soon returned to his home country and completed degrees in law and economics at the University of Costa Rica.
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In 1967, Oscar Arias traveled to the United Kingdom and enrolled in the London School of Economics.
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Oscar Arias received a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Essex in 1974.
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Oscar Arias has received over fifty honorary degrees, including doctorates from Harvard University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Oberlin College, Wake Forest University, Ithaca College and Washington University in St Louis.
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Oscar Arias joined the National Liberation Party, Costa Rica's main social democratic party.
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Oscar Arias is often regarded as a neoliberal although he is a member of a nominally social democratic party.
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Oscar Arias then called for a higher level of integration in the Central America region and promoted the creation of the Central American Parliament.
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Oscar Arias challenged this at the Sala IV, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, which initially rejected his application in September 2000.
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In 2003, a group of Oscar Arias supporters presented an unconstitutionality challenge against the 1969 constitutional amendment forbidding re-election, and this time the ruling in April 2003 struck down the prohibition against non-consecutive re-election.
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Oscar Arias announced in 2004 that he intended to run again for president in the February 2006 general elections.
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Oscar Arias took the oath of office at noon on 8 May 2006 at the National Stadium.
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Oscar Arias began serving as mediator between Zelaya and Micheletti in the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
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Oscar Arias presented a seven-point agreement, which calls for the return of Zelaya as president – a condition deemed unacceptable to the interim government.
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Subsequently, due to increasing difficulty in speaking over the course of several weeks, Oscar Arias went to the Philadelphia Ears, Nose and Throat Associates medical center in the United States on 20 May 2008, where it was determined that he had a nonmalignant cyst on his vocal cords.
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On 11 August 2009 Oscar Arias was diagnosed with H1N1 Influenza, but he recovered.
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Oscar Arias was blamed for having invited a Canadian corporation to perform heavy mining which could potentially compromise the local biodiversity.
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Dobles was previously found guilty of the charges, but Oscar Arias was not indicted alongside him by the previous General Attorney Jorge Chavarria.
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