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Mireya Moscoso
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Arturo Vallarino (1999–2004) Dominador Baldomero Bazán (1999–2004)
- Preceded by
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares
- Succeeded by
- Martín Torrijos
- Born
- Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez , ( 1946-07-09 ) 9 July 1946 (age 79) , Pedasi , Panama
- Party
- Arnulfista
- Spouses
- Arnulfo Arias ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 ; died 1988 ) Ricardo Gruber ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 )
- Education
- Miami Dade College
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Panama
- Place of birth
- Pedasí District
- Spouse
- Arnulfo Arias
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Panama
- Educated at
- Miami Dade College
- Political party
- Panameñista Party
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Image
- Mireya Moscoso.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-07-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez (born 1 July 1946) is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
Born into a rural family, Moscoso became active in the 1968 presidential campaign of three-time president Arnulfo Arias, following and marrying him when he went into exile after a military coup. After his death in 1988, she assumed control of his coffee business and later his political party, the Arnulfista Party (PA). During the 1994 general elections for the presidency, she narrowly lost to the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate Ernesto Pérez Balladares by 4% of the vote. In the 1999 general election, she defeated the PRD candidate Martín Torrijos by 7% to become Panama's first female president.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mireya Moscoso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.