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From Chrissie Long at the Tico Times
Costa
Rican President Oscar Arias turned heads with his role in the Honduran
mediation process, and now he’ll be turning on TVs.
Because
of his work in conflict management in the Central American region and his
accomplishments in diplomacy, Arias will be featured on The Biography Channel
in a program set to air at 8 p.m. on Sept. 13, his 68th birthday.
According
to the daily La Nación, Arias will be the first Central American and the second
standing president – the first was United States President Barack Obama – to be
profiled by The Biography Channel.
The
90-minute program will chronicle Arias’ early years growing up in a prominent
coffee-growing family and will extend through his academic life, including the
influence authors such as the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had
on his career. The program also highlights his role in the Central American
peace process of the 1980s, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
It
was Arias’ role as peacemaker that caught the producers’ attention. His
political philosophy “not only allows him to govern a small nation without an
army and with a long democratic tradition, but it also gives necessary
credibility with Costa Rica’s Central American counterparts to practice the
difficult role of conflict mediation,” according to The Biography Channel.
Arias’
ex-wife, Margarita Penón, and daughter Sylvia Arias collaborated in the
production, along with his brother and Presidency Minister Rodrigo Arias,
Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno and political analysts Constantino Urcuyo and
Eduardo Ulibarri.