Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría is a Costa Rica politician, who served as the nation's 2nd Vice President, under Luis Guillermo Solís 2014–2018, and as Ambassador in Spain, under Carlos Alvarado.
Previously a cabinet minister and deputy, Chacón has also served on numerous committees and conferences on the national and international level.
[4] In 2011, she served on the United Nation's Global Commission on HIV and the Law Reviews Legal Barriers Obstructing Progress on AIDS in Asia-Pacific.
As a deputy, Chacón often clashed with PUSC, her own party, supporting such initiatives as the right to in vitro fertilization, same sex marriage, and abortion in the case of fetal health.
"[7] Chacón also expressed grievances about how CAFTA is implemented,[10] but nevertheless stood by her support of it, claiming that it is too early to analyze the positive or negative impact of the free trade agreement.