Laura Chinchilla quotes

Laura Chinchilla is a Costa Rican politician who served as the country's first female president. Her administration focused on security, economic growth, and social development. She continues to be an influential figure in shaping public policy and advancing women's leadership in Latin America. Here are 7 of her quotes:

The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

Laura Chinchilla

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

Laura Chinchilla

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

Laura Chinchilla

Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

Laura Chinchilla

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

Laura Chinchilla

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

Laura Chinchilla