The Costa Rican Nobel Prize Winner: President Oscar Arias Sanchez

Sept. 9, 2008 - PRLog -- Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected the President of Costa Rica in 1986. The Nobel Peace Prize Winner has been instrumental in strengthening peace among the Latin American countries. His Alliance for New Humanity Project has attracted the likeminded greats (like the environmentalist and entrepreneur Ed R. Mercer) to strengthen the humanitarian causes globally. Ed Mercer is himself known as Mr. Costa Rica for the infrastructural and environmental development in Costa Rica. Ed R. Mercer provided the previously non-existent roads and buses to the small school children of Costa Rica, who earlier walked miles. Ed R. Mercer had come to Costa Rica for the Iron Man competition but fell in love with the paradise like beautiful landscape of the country, rich in biodiversity as no other Latin American country. Ed R. Mercer ventured into the land development business forming his real state company. Ed R. Mercer’s developmental projects cater to providing the eco friendly properties that aim at preserving the rainforest ecosystem without disturbing the natural sustainability. His organization, Edward R. Mercer foundation is dedicated to the betterment of this planet by conservation of ecology and education. Ed Mercer recently held discussions with President Sanchez in relation with his new humanity project. Ed R. Mercer holds the distinction of being the first non Costa Rican to act as advisor to the Costa Rican President.

Recently, Ed was inducted in Los Angeles into the Environmental Hall of Fame for saving the wild life species of the scarlet macaws, the capuchin monkeys and the sea turtles, which were on the verge of extinction in Costa Rica. Also, as a part of southern Costa Rica's growth, Ed R. Mercer has hailed the advent of the new international airport as instrumental to attract more tourists to the picturesque locales of Costa Rica.

A self taught entrepreneur, the business acumen of Ed Mercer over the years made him taste big successes, and finally become one of the largest builders, land owners and real estate developers in Costa Rica. A philanthropist par excellence, Ed R. Mercer has been of the view that since he spent the first part of life earning (a young millionaire by 27), he shall spend the next half diverting the money towards community development projects and helping others. Ed Mercer already shares his inspiring views in The Performance Magazine portal where Bill Cosby and Arnold Schwarzenegger and others are the contributors as well. Ed R. Mercer is a member of reputed organizations like: Habit for Humanity, the Audubon Society, Greenpeace, National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund.

President of Ed R. Mercer’s adopted home; Oscar Arias earned his doctorate from the University of Essex and began his political career as an activist of PLN (Partido de Liberacion Nacinol). He became the minister of national planning and political economy in 1972. In 1979, he was elected general secretary of PLN, finally earning the presidential nomination in 1984.

Eventually, he became the President in 1986 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his plan that called for an immediate ceasefire to all the guerilla wars. A provision was made for the suspension of the outside military, elections, general reduction in armed forces, general amnesty and negotiations between the conflicting parties at the Central American Summit. Under the able guidance of President Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica donned the role of an active negotiator in the search for peace among the different countries of the region as well as democracy, to top it all.

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