Vladimir de la Cruz de Lemos is Costa Rican.
Historian, Professor for more than four decades at the University of Costa Rica and at the National University of Heredia.
He was dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University, Director of the Institute of Labor Studies of the National University, Coordinator of the Chair of History of Costa Rican Institutions, at the University of Costa Rica.
He was Prosecutor of the National Association of Authors of Literary, Artistic and Scientific Works of Costa Rica President and Director of Editorial Costa Rica. Member of the National Awards Jury, President and Director of the Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Museum. Three times candidate for the Presidency of Costa Rica for the Democratic Force party, of which he was it's founder. Parliamentary Advisor, Ambassador to the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. He is currently a Member of the University Council of the State Distance University (UNED), Director of the Editorial of the UNED, Member of the National Commission of Historical Commemorations, Secretary of the Costa Rican Morist Academy.
He has won the Aquileo J. Echeverría and Cleto González Víquez National Prizes from the Costa Rican Academy of Geography and History for his book Las Luchas Sociales en Costa Rica (1980). Author of a large number of books, including editor and co-author of a General History of Costa Rica, in five volumes, of publications and essays, specializing in the history of social struggles and the labor movement, national and international, as well as in the History national, republican, general and contemporary.
In his professional field, he frequently publishes and participates in interviews, conferences, debates, forums and round tables, on political and historical-cultural issues, in magazines, newspapers and national and foreign media.
