Alberto Cañas Escalante [SEP] date of death
Alberto Cañas Escalante
Alberto Cañas Escalante (16 March 1920 – 14 June 2014) was a politician, writer, intellectual, public servant, and journalist from San José, Costa Rica. He is known as one of the most important figures in the cultural, political, and social life of Costa Rica during the latter half of the twentieth century. The National Library System of Costa Rica credits Cañas with more than 4,773 publications as of 2005.
He was Vice Minister of International Relations (1955–1956), ambassador (1956–1958
Rican congress and was a successful businessman. Other Cañas descendants include Dr. Luciano Beéche Cañas, a Costa Rican doctor; Rafael Beéche Cañas, founder of the tuna fishing industry in Costa Rica; Eduardo Beéche Titzck, former governor of the state of Puntarenas; Arturo Beéche Bravo, author, educator and royal historian; Alberto Cañas Escalante, author, intellectual and politician; Marta Castegnaro Cañas, newspaper columnist and historian.
Cañas is considered a national hero and there is a monument bust of him in Parque Cañas, a park which