Arturo Zablah Khuri (

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, 1954) is an engineer and Salvadoran politician of Palestinian origin. He graduated from the University of Monterrey in Mexico, with a degree in industrial engineering in 1976. Zablah then earned a master's degree in Systems Analysis at the

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in the United States, in 1981 . He has worked as an industrial engineer and consultant to large manufacturing companies. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade of 1989, then served as Minister of Economy in the government of

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(1994-1999). In the Salvadoran presidential election in 2009, he was a candidate for Vice President of the Republic of El Salvador for the right-wing ARENA party, having

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as the presidential nominee.

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* http://luterano.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/arturo-zablah-presidential-candidate.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Zablah, Arturo 1954 births Living people People from San Salvador Salvadoran Roman Catholics Salvadoran people of Palestinian descent Nationalist Republican Alliance politicians Georgia Tech alumni 21st-century Algerian people