Political Geography 1

Mexico - Enrique Peña Nieto
the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother, María del Socorro Nieto, a schoolteacher
fathered 2 children in extramarital affairs while his wife raised the couple's 3 children.
the investigation into the sudden death of his wife at home in 2007, have prompted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him
Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actress Angelica Rivera.  Rivera became his wife in a star-studded wedding ceremony two years ago and is now the first lady of Mexico
Soyo movement

Germany - Angela Merkel
Hamburg
dad was a Lutheran pastor
Lutheran
has a doctorate as a physical chemist (graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1986)
2013 - accused the US National Guard Security Agency for tapping her cell phone
strike a deal with Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats
first woman chancellor
2005 11 22 elected
2009 9 27 re-elected
2013 9 22 re-elected
totally three times
earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years

Brazil - Dilma Rousseff
daughter of a Bulgarian entrepreneur
she has a degree in economies
she was captured and was put in jail between 1970 and 1972 because she opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship, during which time she was reportedly tortured.
she has been divorced twice
she underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

India - Pranab Mukherjee
3 children
"I came from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality an member of ...."
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
taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, worked as college teacher and journalist before
was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997

Iraq - Fuad Masum
born in 1938 1 1 Koya
the son of Sheikh Mulla Masum, a former head of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Kurdistan, and belongs to an established political dynasty with Muslim clerical links
Kurdistan Democratic Party
PhD in Islamic Philosophy
A former law lecturer and a founding member of Mr Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, he served as its envoy in Syria and Britain before becoming prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan region in 1992

Canada - Justin Trudeau
12 25 1971 Ottawa
his father was Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau
supported the Liberal Party from a young age, offering his support to party leader John Turner in the 1988 federal election
defended Canadian federalism at a student event at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the high school which he attended
he and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip
In 2005, Trudeau fought against a proposed $100-million zinc mine that he argued would poison the Nahanni River in the NW Terr
had a different tone and approach than his competitor - Steven Harper's was controlling