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Costa Ricans Choose Laura Chinchilla
Laura Chinchilla, hand-picked successor of President Óscar Arias, won the February 7 election. She will be the first woman to serve as Costa Rica's president.
Laura Chinchilla, hand-picked successor of President Óscar Arias, won the February 7 election. She will be the first woman to serve as Costa Rica's president.
After sustaining losses in Mexico's 2009 midterm elections and with 12 governorships up for grabs this year, the National Action Party and the Party of the Democratic Revolution could build an unlikely alliance against the Institutional Revolutionary Party ahead of the 2012 presidential vote.
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