What Will Oscar Arias Do
After May 8th?
Oscar Arias is getting ready to step down as
president on May 8, when he hands over the
presidential chair to his protegé, Laura
Chinchilla. But what will Arias do once he
is without a job?
Not being one to sit back and do nothing,
Arias is lining up to head the Banco
Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID).
The naming of Arias as a candidate for the
top post at the BID was made public during a
session of the bank governor's in Cancun,
Mexico.
Unofficially, the US Secretary of State,
Hilary Clinton, is said to have placed the
Arias name in the hat, saying that he
country would support an Arias candidacy.
However, if that doesn't work out, there is
always the possibility, albeit difficult, to
the Secretary General of the United Nations,
or the president of the Secretary General of
the Organization of American States (OAS), a
post held by Chilean, José Miguel Insulza
Salinas, who was Political Advisor to the
Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile,
who during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, was
prohibited to enter to Chile.
The OAS post was already held by a Costa
Rican, former Costa Rican president Miguel
Angel Rodriguez, who resigned only after a
month in office to come home to face charges
of corruption.
Arias' competition to the BID is by Luis
Alberto Moreno, a Colombian who is currenlty
the head of the BID since 2005 and is
aspiring for re-election. |
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