World Leaders

Enrique Pena Nieto

• Marches against Pena Nieto have drawn thousands of people across Mexico.
• He pledged that he would fight organized crimes and that there would be no pacts with the criminals.
• reinvigorate Mexico's economy and reduce drug violence

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz 

• In 2005, King Abdullah implemented a government scholarship program to send young Saudi men and women to Western universities for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
•  He reconstructed the country's courts to introduce review of judicial decisions and more professional training for Shari's judges.
• ascended to the throne after his half brother died
• 13 wives and at least 35 kids
• 6th king of Saudia Arabia

Angela Merkel

• One of her priorities was to strengthen transatlantic economic relations by signing at the White House the agreement for the Transatlantic Economic Council.  
• Her attempts at a multicultural society in Germany failed.
• world's 4th most powerful leader
• highest ranking made by a woman

Benjamin Netanyahu

• The first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the founding of the state.
• He has repeatedly called for the release of Jonathon Pollard, an American serving a life sentence for passing secret U.S. documents into Israel. 

Hu Jintao

• He reintroduced control into some sectors of the economy for China.  
• Hu has cracked down on social disturbances, ethnic minority protests, and dissident figures
• Started the economy that China has today
• Dismissed many political leaders
• first crisis was outbreak of SARS

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• He supports Iran's nuclear energy program.
• He launched a gas rationing plan in 2007 to reduce the country's fuel consumption.

Hamad Karzai

• Many people have planned to assissinate Karzai over the past decade.
• With Karzai as president, many said it was a new start for their war torn country.
• His brother was the center of drug trade.

François Hollande

• Hollande supports the removal of the French in Afghanistan by the end of 2012.
• He supports same sex marriage and adoption of LGBT couples.
• Special advisor for president of France before he became president.
• first to be elected without prior prime minister experience

Pranab Mukherjee

• Mukherjee is very well respected by everyone in the party social circles.
• He is skillfully pushing through the historic 123 Agreement and treaty with the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Hugo Chavez

• Chávez passed a decree designed to implement Conarepol's recommendation on the national police force
• He founded the secretive Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200.
• military sciences and rebelled against president at that time 
• spent time in prison for 2 years

David Cameron

• He wanted to put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest.
• Cameron had used cannabis and cocaine recreational before becoming prime minister.
• youngest elected prime minister in UK 
• A part of a drug scandel 

Queen Elizabeth II

• She has been queen for 60 years.
• Queen became the first British monarch to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

Dilma Rousseff

• First woman to become president for Brazil.
• She feels she represents all women of the world.
• Captured, jailed, and tortured by trying to overthrow the government.
• coup d'etat-- take over a country through revolutionary means