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Furthermore, Ruben Robles, who has known Arias since his run for the presidency of Costa Rica in 1985 and is now an official at the Costa Rican embassy in Washington, D.C., says that much of Arias' campaign strategy in 1985 was inspired by JFK.
"He used the idea of bringing in the young blood, new thinking, new ideas into the party. He focused on 21-to 35-year-olds, and that developed a tremendous amount of momentum," Robles says. Arias used the idea that a torch had been passed to a new generation of...
Robles says that the key to Arias' triumph as the Partido de Liberacion de National (PLN) candidate, which came after aggressive inter-party contention in the primary, was his idea that "technologija" had to be brought into the government. His championing of professionalism was a subtle way of emphasizing the...
Despite his anti-establishment rhetoric, Arias rose up through the ranks of the party; in 1964, he became an assistant to PLN's elder statesman, Jose Figueres Ferrer, and in 1965 he worked on a PLN candidate's unsuccessful presidential bid.
When Figueres returned to the presidency in 1970, he gave Arias an entree into the Costa Rican government, appointing him to his economic council, In 1972, Arias became minister of planning and political economy. By 1979, he had been elected to the PLN's top post, that of general secretary...