facts on world leaders

Enrique Pena Nieto

• lived with the president at that time during his presidency,and had friends and relatives who were involved in politics
• went to Law School, became a lawyer, and got his Master's Degree

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

• developed a government scholarship program 
• was rated the second worst dictator in the world 

Angela Merkel

• had a goal to strengthen transatlantic economic relations 
• was awarded the Vision for Europe Award

                                               Benjamin Netanyahu

• brother was killed in Israeli Special Force
• delivered a peace address ("Bar-llan Speech")

Hu Jintao

• has a low-key leadership style
• firm believer in consensus-based rule

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• has been criticized for attacking private "plunderers" and "corrupt officials"
• accused for indecency after he kissed the hand of his former school teacher

Hamid Karzai

• brother was at the center of the drug trade
• his family became wealthy by murky means

Francois Hollande 

• on his first trip to a foreign country his airplane was struck by lightning 

•  first President to be elected without having prior experience as a Minister and / or Junior Minister since Paul Deschanel in 1920

Pranab Mukherjee

• became one of Indira Gandhi's most trusted lieutenants
• accused of committing gross excesses 

Hugo Chavez

• homicide rates have more than doubled 
• suffering from cancer

David Cameron

• stated that the United Kingdom Independence Party are "fruitcakes, loonies, and closet racist, mostly"
• thinks of himself as a "modern compassionate conservative"

Dilma Rousseff

• first female president elected in Brazil
• she was arrested and tortured ( punching, electric shock, and ferule)