PANAMA'S FIRST LADY.Poverty and unemployment helped bring Panama's first woman president, Mireya Moscoso Mireya Elisa Moscoso RodrÃguez de Arias (born July 1, 1946) was the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Arnulfista Party. She was Panama's first female president. , 53, to power. Now all the widow of three-time Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid (August 15, 1901 – August 10, 1988 in Miami, Florida) was president of Panama on three occasions: 1940–41, 1949–51, and for two weeks in October 1968. He never served a full term, but was deposed by military coups on each occasion. has to do is find a way to solve those long-standing social ills. Her pledges to halt privatizations and raise import tariffs certainly don't bode well for attracting major investments. Nor does recent lackluster performance of the Colon Free Zone, the Western Hemisphere's largest free-trade zone free-trade zone Area within which goods may be landed, handled, and re-exported freely. The purpose is to remove obstacles to trade and to permit quick turnaround of ships and planes. . Adding to her burden, the pressure of policing and administering the Panama Canal Panama Canal, waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904–14) on territory leased from the republic of Panama. , which the United States is scheduled to return at the end of the year, promise to make the First Lady's first elected post a real trial by fire. |
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