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This article is about the former president of Chile. For his son, a former minister, see Ricardo Lagos Weber.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lagos and the second or maternal family name is Escobar.
Ricardo Lagos
32nd President of Chile
In office 11 March 2000 – 11 March 2006
Preceded by
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Succeeded by
Michelle Bachelet
Minister of Public Works
In office 11 March 1994 – 1 August 1998
President
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Preceded by
Carlos Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle
Succeeded by
Jaime Tohá
Minister of Education
In office 11 March 1990 – 28 September 1992
President
Patricio Aylwin
Preceded by
René Salamé Martín
Succeeded by
Jorge Arrate
Personal details
Born
(1938-03-02) 2 March 1938 (age 86) Santiago, Chile
Political party
Party for Democracy (1987–present)
Other political affiliations
Radical Party (1959–1961) Socialist Party of Chile (1961–1987)
Spouses
Carmen Weber
(m. 1961; ann. 1969)
Luisa Durán
(m. 1971)
Children
Ricardo
Ximena
Hernán (stepson)
Francisca
Alejandro (stepson)
Alma mater
University of Chile Duke University
Occupation
Lawyer
Economist
Signature
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation:[riˈkaɾðofɾojˈlanˈlaɣoseskoˈβaɾ]; born 2 March 1938)[1] is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.[2][3] Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.[4][5]
^"Lagos celebra sus 80 años en evento con autoridades y ex colaboradores". La Tercera. 3 March 2018.
^"UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Appoints Special Envoys on Climate Change". United Nations. 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2007.
^"Ricardo Lagos". The Elders. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^"Comité Central del Partido Socialista elige a Guillier como su candidato presidencial por amplia mayoría". Emol.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^10:35 hrs. Lunes 10, Abril 2017 (10 April 2017). "Ricardo Lagos renuncia a candidatura presidencial | Tele 13". T13.cl. Retrieved 27 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾojˈlan ˈlaɣos eskoˈβaɾ]; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic...
and many went into exile. Twenty-seven years after the 1973 coup, RicardoLagos Escobar won the Presidency as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1999–2000...
Ricardo Andrés Lagos Weber (born February 21, 1962), son of former Chilean president RicardoLagos, is a politician who served as the Ministry General...
Ricardo Santos Lago (born 10 September 1980), best known as Ricardo Baiano, is a retired professional football midfielder who is currently the Youth Academy...
footballer RicardoLagos, Chilean socialist politician and former president Ricardo Larrivée, French-Canadian TV and radio food presenter and writer Ricardo Lee...
conversación': Gabriel Boric confirmó que se reunió con Michelle Bachelet y RicardoLagos". ADN (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 December 2021....
as the Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, RicardoLagos. She is a separated mother of three and identifies as an agnostic. In...
Region since July 14, 2021. Orrego is a former minister of President RicardoLagos and the former mayor of the commune of Peñalolén. In 2013, he was a...
behind Christian Democrat Andrés Zaldívar and Party for Democracy leader RicardoLagos, the two main leaders of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy, the...
Lizzeri, Christian Hellwig, and more recently with Alessandro Pavan, RicardoLagos, Marciano Siniscalchi, and Xavier Vives. The journal is published by...
Eduardo Frei Montalva), leading the same coalition for a six-year term. RicardoLagos Escobar of the Socialist Party and the Party for Democracy led the Concertacion...
of Chilean ex-president RicardoLagos and mother of politician RicardoLagos Weber. Carmen Weber met and married RicardoLagos in 1961, with whom he had...
Budget Director from 2000 to 2006. In 2000, the incoming President, RicardoLagos, appointed him as Budget Director, and Nicolás Eyzaguirre as Minister...
successor as head of the Chilean armed forces, General Ricardo Izurieta. President-elect RicardoLagos said the retired general's televised arrival had damaged...
future amendments to the Constitution. In September 2006, President RicardoLagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress...
of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso; the 31st President of Chile, RicardoLagos; former Chancellor of Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer; and two-time Prime...
[citation needed] The report was prepared at the request of President RicardoLagos by the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, which...
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