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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
     - He refuses to pressure trading parteners
     - Because of Jintao, China expanded its influences over seas in resource rich developing nations

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 

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

Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad

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

      - Activist for women's rights

Israel - President Shimon Peres

     - He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

     - He entered politics after his brother was killed when leading the 1976 mission to rescue of hijacked Israel 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

France - President François Hollande

    - He is a member of the Socialist Party

     - He got a a National Assembly seat in 1988

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

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