Topic summary
Luis Guillermo Solís
25 April 1958
(Before 2005)
Citizens' Action Party
(2009–present)
Tulane University (MA)
- Political scientist
- historian
- professor
- politician
- academic administrator
- writer
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera (Spanish pronunciation:; born 25 April 1958) is a Costa Rican political scientist, historian and politician who served as the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Citizens' Action Party, he has had an academic career spanning more than three decades.
Solís led the first round of the 2014 presidential election and went on to win the presidency by a landslide, receiving the highest number of votes ever obtained by a presidential candidate in Costa Rican history. His election marked the first time that a member of the PAC assumed the presidency. At the time of his election, he was a full professor at the University of Costa Rica, where he had taught since 1981.
Since May 2017, Solis has been under fire after a report accused him of allegedly corruptly expediting the legal process of Chinese cement imports in favor of businessman and owner of Sinocem, Juan Carlos Bolaños, in a case known as Cementazo. In May 2018 the Public Prosecutor of Costa Rica dismissed the charges against him.