Ricardo Lagos

Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006 · Chile · Politicians · Born 1938 · age 88

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Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006.

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2004Collar of the Order of the Star of RomaniaAwardGrand Order of King TomislavAward2002Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of PolandAwardGrand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of FinlandAward2001Collar of the Order of Isabella the CatholicAwardGrand Collar of the Order of Prince HenryAwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Double CrossAward2000Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAwardMedal of the Oriental Republic of UruguayAward1991Grand Cross of the Order of Civil MeritAward1938Born2 March 1938

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Lagos in 1969

Lagos visits Paniahue in 2001.

Ricardo Lagos with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005.

Ricardo Lagos with Néstor Kirchner.

Lagos in 2006

Lagos arrives at the inauguration of his successor, Michelle Bachelet.

Awards

Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania2004

Grand Order of King Tomislav2004

Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland2002

Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)2002

Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland2002

Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic2001

Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross2001

Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry2001

Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic2000

Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay2000

Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit1991

Collar of the Order of Merit

Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru

Grand Cross of the Order of Stara Planina

Honorary Doctorate of the University of Salamanca

Honorary Doctor of Harvard University

Honorary Doctorate

Family

Mother Ema Escobar

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Child Ricardo Lagos Weber

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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 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.

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Chile

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