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Ricardo Lagos
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Med Chile i hjärtat
- The Southern Tiger
- Corcovado National Park
- Nueva Soledad de America Latina
- Global Challenges in the 21st Century
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Santiago, Chile
Known for
- Elegidos — Self2023
- Los 2000 — Self - President of the Republic, 2000–20062021
- Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar — Self2020
- La entrevista de — Self2019
- Cheques Matta — Self - Former President of Chile2018
- 360° — Self (archive footage)2018
- Mesa central — Self2018
- El juez, la víctima y el victimario — Self (archive footage)2014
- El informante — Self2013
- Mentiras verdaderas — Self2011
via TMDB
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
- Succeeded by
- Michelle Bachelet
- President
- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
- Born
- ( 1938-03-02 ) 2 March 1938 (age 88) , Santiago , Chile
- Party
- Party for Democracy , (1987–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Radical Party , (1959–1961), Socialist Party of Chile , (1961–1987)
- Spouses
- Carmen Weber ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 ; annulled</span>"}]]}'>ann. 1969 ) Luisa Durán ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
- Children
- Ricardo Ximena Hernán (stepson) Francisca Alejandro (stepson)
- Alma mater
- University of Chile , Duke University
- Occupation
- Lawyer Economist
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ricardo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- Santiago
- Spouse
- Luisa Durán
- Child
- Ricardo Lagos Weber
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Employer
- Brown University
- Political party
- Party for Democracy
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Image
- Ricardo Lagos in 2024 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Ricardo Lagos
- date of birth
- 1938-03-02
- Commons gallery
- Ricardo Lagos
- name in native language
- Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar
- second family name in Spanish name
- Escobar
- candidacy in election
- 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election
- P10632
- Ricardo Lagos
- member of
- The Elders
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar ( Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾojˈlan ˈlaɣos eskoˈβaɾ]; born 2 March 1938) 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 of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.
Early years
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