Sissy gets her political chops with Costa Rica's first female president, Laura Chinchilla Friday!

The President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla sits down with Sissy to talk about her illustrious political career and journalist Mildred Espinoza joins Sissy LIVE Friday night 7:30pm EST on MNN Channel 56 TWC and on www.thesissygamacheshow.com
By: Charles Casano - Associate Producer
 
 
President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica
President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica
Aug. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Laura Chinchilla served as vice president (2006–08) and president (2010– ) of Costa Rica. She was the first woman to be elected to the Costa Rican presidency.

Chinchilla, the eldest of four children, was born in a suburb of the Costa Rican capital, San José. Her middle-class Roman Catholic family had a legacy of involvement in national politics: her father, Rafael Ángel Chinchilla, twice served as the country's comptroller general in the 1970s and '80s. Chinchilla earned a bachelor's degree in political science (1981) from the University of Costa Rica and a master's degree in public policy (1989) from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Back in Costa Rica, Chinchilla made a career as an international consultant, specializing in the areas of judicial reform and public security, for such organizations as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. She also became affiliated with a number of international committees and foundations that promoted public safety and human rights, and she lectured and wrote widely on those topics.

Chinchilla gained her first public office in 1994, when she became vice minister of public security under Pres. José María Figueres Olsen of the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional; PLN). She was promoted in 1996 to minister of public security, a post she held for two years. In 2002, as a member of the social-democratic PLN, Chinchilla won a four-year term in Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly, where she represented the province of San José. Building on her established commitment to public security and justice, she focused her legislative efforts on combating organized crime, public corruption, domestic violence, and crimes affecting children. She also called for free-trade agreements with various global trading partners and the liberalization of state-controlled components of the economy.

At the end of her term in the Legislative Assembly, in 2006, Chinchilla became vice president and minister of justice under newly reelected president Óscar Arias Sánchez, also of the PLN. Ineligible to run for a consecutive term in 2010, Arias endorsed Chinchilla as his successor, and she resigned in 2008 to concentrate on her presidential campaign. Although some opponents likened Chinchilla to a mere puppet of the outgoing president, she wooed many voters with her pledges to increase spending for law enforcement and education, to combat illicit drug trafficking, and to create jobs, notably in environmentally friendly and technological enterprises. Her social conservatism, particularly her positions against abortion and same-sex marriage, also reassured many voters in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. On Feb. 7, 2010, Chinchilla won the presidential election with 46.8 percent of the vote—more than 20 percentage points ahead of the runner-up, Ottón Solís Fallas of the centre-left Citizen Action Party (Partido Acción Ciudadana; PAC), who had been Arias's main challenger in 2006. She took office that May.

Mildred Espinoza is a two time Emmy-Award Winning Television Executive, Founder of M Communications and the General Manager at South-South News. She is a Journalist with more than a decade of training working in print, radio, television and digital platforms. She has conducted numerous interviews with high level government officials from various parts of the world on Millennium Development Goals initiatives addressing education, gender equality, climate change, economic and sustainable development among other topics geared toward raising awareness about the Millennium Development Goals and the United Nations.

Espinoza worked with NBC/Telemundo for several years, overseeing the Special Projects & Investigative Units. Her department was responsible for the production of special-coverage events such as hurricanes, presidential elections, inaugurations, September 11th anniversaries, half-hour entertainment specials and community outreach campaigns.

Espinoza has worked in a multitude of media outlets. Prior to working for NBC/Telemundo, she was a producer for the Pat Buchanan & Bill Press show at MSNBC and Ron Insana of CNBC. In print, she worked for Crain Communications; there Espinoza was involved with two of our nation’s top publications in the pension fund industry. In radio, she produced, wrote and was a contributing reporter for the morning news show for Spanish Broadcasting Systems in New York.
An advocate for education and volunteerism, she is the recipient of a humanitarian award presented to by Mission International Rescue. Espinoza has participated in numerous programs mentoring high school students and spends a substantial amount of her time sharing her professional experience as a motivational speaker at colleges. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from New York University. Her motto is “Atrévete y Supérate.” (Reinventing Yourself!)

Now Sissy will reinvent herself after talking to these 2 dynamic, powerhouse women on The Sissy Gamache Show LIVE 7:30pm EST on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network) Channel 56 Time Warner Cable in Manhattan and on our website www.thesissygamacheshow.com

For more information on President Laura Chinchilla and what's happening in Costa Rica, go to www.laura-chinchilla.com
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