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title: "Costa Rica's Chinchilla: A Social Conservative"
year: 2013
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# Costa Rica's Chinchilla: A Social Conservative

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[caption id="attachment_3567" align="aligncenter" width="442"]<img class=" wp-image-3567 " alt="Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica" src="https://cfi.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Laura-Chinchilla.jpg" width="442" height="325" /> <strong>Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica</strong>[/caption]
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>One of two VPs in the previous administration, Laura Chinchilla was the first female president of Costa Rica when she assumed that office in May 2010.</strong>  Since coming to power she has had to deal with the Nicaraguan border crisis and reforms to correct the country’s staggering deficit. Chinchilla has championed ecotourism and placed a moratorium on oil exploration.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Chinchilla has written extensively on judicial reform and public security and before taking up office was a consultant on these matters in Latin America and Africa. She is a social conservative opposing the separation of church and state and supporting a ban on the ‘morning after pill’.</p>