Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

He had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1966 and in 1968 he and Major Boris Martínez led a successful coup d ' état against the recently elected president of Panama, Arnulfo Arias, after only eleven days in office, when he tried to order Torrijos to a foreign post.

A month later, on 7 March, after a manual recount, the official results showed Arias beat center-left contender Ottón Solís by 18, 169 votes ( 1. 2 % of valid votes cast ).

Soon after taking office, Arias enacted a new constitution that granted women the right to vote for the first time.

As the plaza is named after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a statue of the priest, created by Luis Arias can also be found on the plaza.

The result after years of litigation was that Arias de Sotelo's claim was dismissed, and Tacuba was divided between Cano and Andrade.

Maciel was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop González Arias in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on November 26, 1944, after which he continued to build up the Legion and its lay counterpart, Regnum Christi.

His middle-class parents had been allies of Authentic Panameñista Party founder Arnulfo Arias, and the family went into exile after Arias was overthrown in a 1941 coup.

Each time Ortiz crosses the plate after hitting a home run, he looks up and points both index fingers to the sky in tribute to his mother Angela Rosa Arias, who died in a car crash in January 2002 at the age of 46.

General José Remón was the man behind the scenes of several coups that ousted Dr. Arnulfo Arias from power, and arguably the true founder of the social reforming militarism that was later dubbed " Torrijismo " after General Omar Torrijos.

On May 16, 1984, after ten days, the district results were finally tallied by the Electoral Tribunal and Ardito Barletta was declared winner by 1, 713 votes, defeating Arias.

To legitimize the presidency, the national election jury, who had in 1948 ruled against Arias, " found pro-Arias votes it had been unable to find in weeks after the 1948 balloting ".

With former President Harmodio Arias Madrid, he was the founder, architect, and for several years, main leader, of the National Revolutionary Party ( PNR ), until for health reasons he stepped down in 1940 after organizing the party for Arnulfo Arias Madrid.

In the spring of 1126, shortly after Urraca's death and the accession of Alfonso, Arias led a rebellion in Galicia.

It was named after Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first American-born governor in South America.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

Though for years private polling companies and several news media published polls predicting Arias would win by a wide margin, the election was initially deemed too close to call.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

After a month-long recount and several appeals from different parties, Arias was declared the official winner with 40. 9 % of the votes against 39. 8 % for Solís.

Proposed calculations of the date of creation using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century include: Marianus Scotus ( 4192 BC ), Maimonides ( 4058 BC ), Henri Spondanus ( 4051 BC ), Benedict Pereira ( 4021 BC ), Louis Cappel ( 4005 BC ), James Ussher ( 4004 BC ), Augustin Calmet ( 4002 BC ), Isaac Newton ( 4000 BC ), Johannes Kepler ( April 27, 3977 BC ) on his book Mysterium, Petavius ( 3984 BC ), Theodore Bibliander ( 3980 BC ), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus ( 3966 BC ), Melanchthon ( 3964 BC ), Martin Luther ( 3961 BC ), John Lightfoot ( 3960 BC ), Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide ( 3951 BC ) Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 3949 BC ), Christoph Helvig ( 3947 BC ), Gerardus Mercator ( 3928 BC ), Matthieu Brouard ( 3927 BC ), Benito Arias Montano ( 3849 BC ), Andreas Helwig ( 3836 BC ), David Gans ( 3761 BC ), Gershom ben Judah ( 3754 BC )

Óscar Arias Sánchez ( born 13 September 1940 ) is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010.

Arias has received over fifty honorary degrees, including doctorates from Harvard University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Oberlin College, Wake Forest University, Ithaca College and Washington University in St. Louis.

As described above ( with factual citations ), Arias himself was initially prohibited by Costa Rica's constitutional court from another term, due to constitutional term limits, but this was reversed using legal means, with the consent of the Costa Rican Sala IV court, unlike in Honduras.

* In 2006, in response to a candidate ( Ottón Solís ) who challenged him to a debate, Oscar Arias said: “ Eagles live on high and see from on high, and don ’ t bother to watch what the snails are doing ”, referring himself as an eagle and other the candidates as “ snails ”.

He was the son of Antonio Arias and Carmen Madrid, and the brother of Harmodio Arias, who served as President of Panama from 1932-1936.

Arias had made the mistake of trying to send military leader Omar Torrijos to a foreign position which Torrijos felt he would lose money from uncollected bribes.

After some time apart, Ilona ( Margarita Rosa de Francisco ) and Maqroll ( Humberto Dorado ) meet in Panama and open an airplane-themed brothel in order to raise funds so that Abdul ( Imanol Arias ), who has recently been released from prison in Ceuta, can buy a steamship to meet up with Ilona and Maqroll, and the three can resume their long-term romantic relationship.

Under the leadership of Costa Rican president Óscar Arias, the so-called Esquipulas Peace Agreement emerged from the remains of Contadora in 1986 and led to a fundamental reshaping of Central American politics.

On February 15, 1987, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias submitted a Peace Plan which evolved from this meeting.

This piece, the Red Act Arias, was premiered at the 1997 Proms, animating text from Aeschylus with narrator, choir, orchestra and eight channel electronic sound.

Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias ( born July 1, 1946 ) was Panama's first female female president, serving from 1999 to 2004.

In July from 1967 the senators Raúl Ampuero and Tomás Chadwick and the representatives Ramón Silva Ulloa, Eduardo Osorio Pardo and Oscar Naranjo Arias were expelled, and founded the Popular Socialist Union ( USOPO ).

* Richard Strauss, Arias from Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio, with Júlia Várady and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on the Orfeo label

ACES ( Spanish acronym: Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia ) was an airline with its headquarters in the Edificio del Cafe in Medellín, Colombia and founded on August 30, 1971 by a group of 13 Colombian entrepreneurs, amongst them, most notably Orlando Botero Escobar and German Peñaloza Arias from Manizales and Luis H. Coulson, Jorge Coulson R., Alberto Jaramillo and Hernán Zuluaga from Medellín.

She translated two chap books from Peruvian poet Adrian Arias.

He frequently works with Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand, who conducted the world premieres of Oceana ( commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival, 1996 ) and La Pasión según San Marcos ( Stuttgart's European Music Festival, 2000 ); classical and Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer ; and American soprano Dawn Upshaw, who performed premieres of his new opera, Ainadamar ( and Arias and Ensembles derived from it ) at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in 2005, London's Barbican Arts Centre in 2006 and Opera Boston in 2007.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

In an attempt to highlight his stands on key Reagan Era foreign policy initiatives, Kemp traveled in September 1987 to Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador to lobby the presidents of those nations against the Arias Peace Plan-a peace accord US conservatives felt too conciliatory to Central American communists.

* 1940 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate

In 1987, due to a stalemate with the Contras, the Esquipulas II treaty was brokered by Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez.

* September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* May 8 – Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica.

* Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of Costa Rica.

Arias joined the National Liberation Party ( PLN ), Costa Rica's main social democratic party.

During his current administration, Arias has declared that Costa Rica will not enter the Central American Parliament.

Arias challenged this at the Sala IV, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, which initially rejected his application in September 2000.

Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, presented a seven point agreement, which calls for the return of Zelaya as President – a condition deemed unacceptable to the interim government.

* U. S .: Arias Government Knew How The Constitutional Court Would Vote On The TLC / WikiLeaks On Costa Rica: Translated From La Nación

* March 23, 2010: Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica.

: dozens of cables in which the Ambassador sought to undermine regional peace efforts such as the Contadora initiative that ultimately won Costa Rican president Oscar Arias a Nobel Prize, as well as multiple reports of meetings and conversations with Honduran military officers who were instrumental in providing logistical support and infrastructure for CIA covert operations in support of the contras against Nicaragua -" our special project " as Negroponte refers to the contra war in the cable traffic.

Those contacted included: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amre Moussa, Peace Laureate and former Israeli President Shimon Peres, former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Laureate-Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nelson Mandela and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.