Ruby Moscoso de Young (22 September 1941 – 7 January 2022) was a Panamanian politician who served as

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from 1 September 1999 to 1 September 2004, during the presidential administration of her younger sister

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. She was born as Ruby Moscoso in Pedasí, Los Santos, into a family of six children. A graduate of the

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, she married Dr. Carlos Young Adames. From 1990 to 1994, she served as Consul of Panama in

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in the United States. Moscoso de Young died on 7 January 2022, at the age of 80.

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