This week President-elect Oscar Arias has been busy naming Ministers and presidential advisors to cabinet positions. Arias is not putting untested newcomers into positions, as most are people who have served as minisiters or deputy directors in previous administrations.  The lucky winners:

Leonardo Garnier Minister of Education  - Garnier was Minister of Planning in the Figueres Olsen presidency (1194-1998)
Karla González Minister of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) - González was deputy minister of transportation in the Rodriguez administration (1998-2002)

Laura Chinchilla - Minister of Justice, she is also the First Vice-President. She has served as a PLN legislator previously.

Rodrigo Arias - Minister of the Presidency, brother of the president elect, will be the key man in Zapote.

Bruno Stagno - Minister of Foreign Affairs, 35 years old and is the current UN ambassador for Costa Rica.

Guillermo Zúñiga - Minister of Finance, will have to get busy on a new tax plan.

Kevin Casas - Minister of Planning, Second Vice-president.

Francisco Morales - Minister of Labor, who was also minister in the José Figueres Ferrer (1970-1974) and with Daniel Oduber (1974-1978), and was Minister of Agriculture with Luis Alberto Monge (1982-1986).