“every Chilean repudiates what has happened today at dawn in London.”
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Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister o…
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politics · President of Chile from 2000 to 2006 · lawyer · economist · politician · professor · diplomat · jurist · also Ricardo Lagos, Lagos
Born 2 March 1938 · Q331
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2026· 4 entries
BellaNaija: Meet Coral at The Lofts, a New Setting for Intimate Celebrations in Lagos
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Billionaires.Africa: Aliko Dangote pledges $432,000 for a Lagos girls' hostel and jobs for first-class graduates
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FMDOS: La preocupante advertencia de Marcelo Lagos ante dudas por el próximo terremoto en Chile: reveló la magnitud que podría alcanzar
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2013· 1 entry
Lagos was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo assuming the "José Bonifácio Cátedra"
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Order of King Tomislav (2004).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania (2004).
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2002· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2002).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil) (2002).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2002).
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Lagos' government had to face suspicions of political corruption due to the prosecution of one of his ministers, Carlos Cruz, and of other civil employees of the Public Works Ministry, in the denominated MOP-GATE case
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Rudolf Schuster (2001).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2001).
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Awarded Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry (2001).
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2000· 3 entries
Won Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2000).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000).
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Career landmark: President of Chile (2000–2006).
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1999· 1 entry
Lagos resigned as minister in order to begin his presidential campaign
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1994· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Public Works of Chile (1994–1998).
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Frei himself named Lagos Minister of Public Works
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Education of Chile (1990–1992).
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Lagos was named Minister of Education by President Patricio Aylwin
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1988· 1 entry
By openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television
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1987· 1 entry
As the president of the Committee of the Left for Free Elections, he called on all citizens and parties to enrol in the electoral registries to cast their vote for the "No" option in the constitutionally-mandated October
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1983· 1 entry
Decided to leave his position as an international civil employee in the United Nations
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1980· 1 entry
“Le voy a recordar General Pinochet que usted el día del plebiscito de 1980 dijo 'Presidente Pinochet no sería candidato en 1989'. La cámara está enfocando espero. Y ahora le promete al país otros ocho años con tortura, con asesinatos, con violación de derechos humanos. Me parece inadmisible que un chileno tenga tanta ambición de pretender estar 25 años en el poder.”
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1978· 3 entries
“Haré en mi gobierno un tremendo esfuerzo por demostrar al mundo que somos un país democrático, donde manda la autoridad elegida por el pueblo y donde las Fuerzas Armadas son disciplinadas, obedientes, no deliberantes.”
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“En democracia, cada cuatro años todos somos iguales, todos valemos lo mismo, y con un lápiz y un papel dibujamos el país que queremos.”
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And worked for the Regional Program of Employment of the United Nations, PREALC
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1975· 1 entry
Worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme
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1972· 1 entry
President Salvador Allende appointed Lagos as the Chilean ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow, but the appointment was never ratified by Congress
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1969· 1 entry
Met Luisa Durán and they married in 1971
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1967· 1 entry
Was named Director of the School of Political and Administrative Sciences, a position he held until 1973 when he became Secretary General of the University of Chile
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1961· 2 entries
Lagos married Carmen Weber, with whom he had two children, Ricardo and Ximena
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When this party supported Jorge Alessandri's government
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chile - Faculty of Law (1954–1960).
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-03-02.
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