What is Miguel Ángel Rodríguez?
{{Infobox president | name = Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | image = MiguelAngelRodriguezEcheverria.jpg | order = 8th | office = Secretary General of the Organization of American States | term_start = 15 September 2004 | term_end = 15 October 2004 | predecessor = [[César Gaviria]] | successor = [[Luigi R. Einaudi]]<br><small>acting</small> | order2 = [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|43rd]] [[President of Costa Rica]] | term_start2 = 8 May 1998 | term_end2 = 8 May 2002 | vicepresident2 = [[Astrid Fischel Volio]]<br/>[[Elizabeth Odio Benito]] | predecessor2 = [[José María Figueres]] | successor2 = [[Abel Pacheco]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|1|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[San José, Costa Rica]] | party = [[Social Christian Unity Party|PUSC]] | spouse = [[Lorena Clare Facio]]| |signature = Firma Miguel Angel Rodriguez.jpg |}} '''Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría''' (born 9 January 1940) is a [[Costa Rica]]n [[economics|economist]], lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as [[President of Costa Rica]] from 1998 to 2002 and was briefly [[Secretary General of the Organization of American States|Secretary General]] of the [[Organization of American States]] (OAS) in 2004. He stepped down and returned to his country to face allegations of financial wrongdoing during his presidential tenure in Costa Rica. On 27 April 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for corruption.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nacion.com/2011-04-28/ElPais/NotasSecundarias/ElPais2759731.aspx |title=Rodríguez condenado por instigar a pago de dádivas - SUCESOS - la Nación |access-date=2011-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502013008/http://www.nacion.com/2011-04-28/ElPais/NotasSecundarias/ElPais2759731.aspx |archive-date=2 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In December 2012, he was exonerated by an appeals court.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/12/21