What is Abel Pacheco?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Abel Pacheco de La Espriella |smallimage = Defense.gov News Photo 050511-D-9880W-053 Abel Pacheco cropped.jpg |caption = |order = 44th [[President of Costa Rica]] |term_start = May 8, 2002 |term_end = May 8, 2006 |vicepresident = [[Lineth Saborío Chaverri]]<br/>[[Luis Fishman Zonzinski]] |predecessor = [[Miguel Ángel Rodríguez]] |successor = [[Óscar Arias]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|12|22}} |birth_place = [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]] |death_date = |death_place = |constituency = |party = [[Social Christian Unity Party|PUSC]] |spouse = Elsa María Muñoz Batha (?–?)<br>[[Leila Rodríguez Stahl]] (m. 1975–Present) |profession = [[Psychiatry|Psychiatrist]] |signature = |footnotes = }} '''Abel Pacheco de la Espriella''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-us-Abel Pacheco from Costa Rica pronunciation (Voice of America).ogg|ə|ˈ|b|ɛ|l|_|p|ə|ˈ|tʃ|eɪ|k|oʊ}} {{respell|ə|BEL|pə|CHAY|koh}}; born 22 December 1933) is a Costa Rican politician and psychiatrist. He was [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|President of Costa Rica]] between 2002 and 2006. He was a member of the [[Social Christian Unity Party]] ''(Partido Unidad Social Cristiana'' – PUSC).<ref>Pacheco assumes presidency. The Salt Lake Tribune. May 9, 2002, PageA2. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=100E40C2889F08FB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022212835/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=100E40C2889F08FB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=2012-10-22 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {