Ex-President Arias Leads Costa Rica Polls
Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias was heavily favored in his bid for Costa Rica’s presidency in a poll published Tuesday. Arias, of the opposition National Liberation Party, was favored by 45.5 percent of those surveyed in the poll carried by the daily newspaper Al Dia. In a distant second place was Otton Solis of the Citizens Action party, preferred by 24.1 percent of respondents, and in third was Otto Guevara, of the Libertarian Movement, with 15 percent. Full Story