Political Leaders

Mexico - President Enrique Peña Nieto
     - He believes that Mexico needs to expand its economy to create more jobs

    - From the Institutional Revolutionary Party

China - President Hu Jintao
     - Since he assumed office in 2002, China's steady economic growth has established
        China as a major world power
     - Because of Jintao, China expanded its influences over seas in resource rich developing
         nations
     -  He is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman
         of the Central Military Commission of China

India - President Pranab Mukherjee
     - Promises to “protect, defend and preserve” the Indian Constitution

     - Hes the only finance minister to have presented budgets in the pre and post
         liberalization time periods 
     - In 2010 he was voted the best finance manager in Asia

Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai

     - He was originally a supporter of the Taliban before the death of his 
       father, after the death he campaigned for an anti-Taliban movement

     - He can communicate effectively with English speaking countries

     - Taliban was in charge of Afganistan before Hamid Karzai

Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

     -  He is the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of 
          conservative political groups in the country

      - He was the Mayor of Tehran

Israel - President Shimon Peres

     - He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994
            Binyamin Netanyahu -

     - He entered politics after his brother was killed when leading the 1976 mission to rescue
       a plane of hijakced Israeli hostages from Uganda

Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel

     - In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union political party

    - She was appointed to Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth

United Kingdom - Prime Minister David Cameron

     - He was the head of Britain's Conservative party

     - His mother is Mary Fleur, a retired Justice of the Peace
     - He is a graduate of Oxford University, with a degree in 
        Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

              Queen Elizabeth II - 
     - She is has been in power for 60 years, which is longer than anyone else on
        this list

France - President François Hollande

    - He is a member of the Socialist Party

     - He got a a National Assembly seat in 1988
     - He is agnostic

Brazil - President Dilma Rousseff

     - She is not only the first female president of Brazil, but also the first woman to
        become Chief of Staff to the President of Brazil

     - She is the first economist to hold office
     - She was a socialist during her youth and from 1970 to 1972 she was in 
       jail and supposedly tortured

Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez Frias

     - He sold oil to Cuba

     - He resisted efforts to stop narcotic trafficking in Columbia

Saudi Arabia - King and Prime Minister Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

     -  He was the mayor of Mecca as a young man

     - He disallowed U.S. Iraq War forces to use bases in Saudi Arabia

United States - President Barack Obama
    - He is the first African American to serve as a U.S. president

coup d'etat - to overthrow