Today in Human Geo, we reviewed country leaders. All the information has been copied and pasted from the noted taken in class. Dilma opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960s and 70s and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured. She has been divorced twice and has a degree in economics and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world. She also underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009 and now in remission. China is a communist state, ruled by President Xi Jinping. He is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party founding fathers. He married folk singer Peng Liyuan who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party. The couple have a daughter name Xi Mingze who is studying at Harvard University in the US. France is a republic headed by Francois. Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position. The mother of his four children is Segolene Royal with whom he shared a 30 year relationship. He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme right physician father and progressive social worker another. Germany is a federal republic headed by President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in quantam chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986. Has been Chancellor since November 2005. Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years at number one. India is a federal republic headed by President Pranab Mukherjee. He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanager College and worked as a journalist before entering politics. Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarians in 1997. He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party - Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress. Iran is a theocratic republic, ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei and President Hasan Fereidun Ruhani. In 1963, Khamenei took part in street protests against the U.S. backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran. Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985. Became Iran's Supreme Leader in 1989. Ruhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council. Recently elected President of Iran in June 2013. He has been openly critical of the outgoing president, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" have cost the country dearly. Israel is parliamentary democracy, headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of the Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934. When Arab forces launched their attach on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel abroad. Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb. As Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during peace talks with the Palestinians. In the autumn of he showed the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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