Background
Moscoso is the daughter of a schoolteacher and was born into a poor family in Pedasi, Panama. She later worked as a secretary and joined the 1968 presidential campaign of Arnulfo Arias; Arias had already served two partial terms as president, both times being deposed by the Panamanian military. He won the presidency but was again deposed by the military, this time after only nine days in office.
Arias went into exile in Miami, Florida in the US, and Moscoso followed, marrying him the subsequent year. She was 23, and he was 67. During this period, Moscoso studied interior design at Miami-Dade Community College. After Arias' 1988 death, she inherited his coffee business.
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