Chilean President to Receive Honorary Degree
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos will be awarded an honorary degree from Duke University:
Lagos, who will deliver the commencement address, received a Ph.D. in economics from Duke in 1996 and was elected in 2000 to serve a six-year term as Chile’s president. When Augusto Pinochet came to power after a 1973 coup, in which former head-of-state Salvador Allende was killed, Lagos went into exile and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After Chile returned to democratic government in 1990, Lagos served as public works minister and education minister. Since assuming the presidency he has worked to improve the economy and correct human rights abuses committed under Pinochet.
Posted April 18th, 2005 in In the News.
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