Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez de Ariaz

1. Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez de Ariaz By: Tiffany Fong and Natalie Jimenez Class 8-3

2. LEGACY Although Mireya Moscoso is a women, it did not stop her from running for presidency, on September 1,1999. She ran on campaign with the desire to reduce poverty, improve education, and slow down the country’s privatization process. In 1994 she was defeated by Emesto Perez Balladarez from the Revolutionary Democratic Party. By then she had ran in previous elections. Moscoso is a widow of Arnulfo Arias; they had one son together during their marriage. She then married Ricardo Gruber, but later in life they divorced. In 1999, she became the twenty-second president, making the first president of Panama. She started out helping programs for kids and youth development protection and general warfare. Her interests in winning the presidency began with a hope for change.

3. The beginning of a true leader Mireya Moscoso, was born on July 1,1946 in Panama. Her father had a job as a teacher . Moscoso’s family was from a small town named Pedasi in province of Los Santos. As Moscoso became older, she attended a primary school where she grew up. Then, she soon attended a Catholic secondary school in Panama city named Maria Inmaculada. Even though she was very young, at the age of 22 she started to work. However, she still attended a Dade Community Collage in Miami. Finally, she earned a diploma for interior design in 1974.

4. Our Personal Opinions Although through out her five years of governing many corruption scandals were said in the media , none was investigated nor seen as true. Moscoso was a women that should be admired and honored for her great success and achievements she had accomplished through out her life. Therefore, Mireya Moscoso brought not only change to Panama, but to the world as well. She became twenty-second president of Panama and helped many people and childrens , which is something we do not see everyday. Indeed, Mireya Moscoso is a women that encourage and inspires other women to do the same , to make a difference in the world with our intelligence and gift for being a women.

5. Cool Citations 1.This website is where we looked up all our cool images. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ei=nCSSYn_BaXrlQetyqiLBw&resnum=1&q=mireya%20moscoso&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active 2.In this website we found many interesting information about Moscoso in Politics. http://en.Wikipedia.org/Wiki./Mireya-Moscoso 3.There were many useful information about Mireya’s personal life and family history. http://wf2dnur3.webfeat.org/#b_personal