Luis Liberman Ginsburg is a Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

n businessperson and Second Vice President of Costa Rica. He was elected in February 2010 on the ticket with President Laura Chinchilla and First Vice President Alfio Piva

Alfio Piva

Alfio Piva Mesén is a Costa Rican politician, scientist and environmentalist. He is the First Vice President of Costa Rica. The Second Vice President is Luis Liberman....

. Liberman's family moved to Costa Rica from Poland

Poland

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 prior to World War II

World War II

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. He is the grandson of the first Mohel

Mohel

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 of Costa Rica's small Jewish community.

Politics

Liberman was chosen as a Vice President to President Laura Chinchilla mainly due to his expertise in economic affairs. He also said that Costa Rica under Chinchilla would be less active in the Middle East

Middle East

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 and foreign policy would focus more on Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 while maintaining good relations with Israel

Israel

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, which he described as "excellent" as well as Egypt

Egypt

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and other Arab states.