Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
| Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | |
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| 8th Secretary General of the Organization of American States | |
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In office 15 September 2004 – 15 October 2004 |
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| Preceded by | César Gaviria |
| Succeeded by |
Luigi R. Einaudi acting |
| President of Costa Rica | |
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In office 8 May 1998 – 8 May 2002 |
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| Preceded by | José María Figueres |
| Succeeded by | Abel Pacheco |
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9 January 1940 San José, Costa Rica |
| Political party | PUSC |
| Spouse(s) | Lorena Clare Facio |
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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría (born 9 January 1940) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002 and was briefly Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2004, before stepping down and returning to his country to face allegations of financial wrongdoing during his presidential tenure in Costa Rica. On 27 April 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for corruption.
In December 2012, he was exonerated by an appeals court.
Rodríguez was born in San José. At the University of Costa Rica he obtained degrees in both economics (1962) and law (1963) and worked there briefly as an assistant professor of economics. He then attended the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, where he received both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics in 1966, having completed a thesis on monetary policy. Immediately after graduating he returned to Costa Rica to serve as Minister of Planning and member of the board of directors of the Costa Rican Central Bank, during the government of president José Joaquín Trejos.
In the 1970s and 1980s Rodríguez combined academic work as a professor of economics at the University of Costa Rica and at the Autonomous University of Central America with a business venture in cattle holding: Grupo Ganadero Industrial, S.A.
Rodriguez is also a devout Roman Catholic. His brother, Álvaro Rodríguez, currently serves as Superior General of the De La Salle Brothers.
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