Donald Ramotar, President of Guyana (since Dec 3, 2011) Mr. Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar was born on the 22nd October, 1950 in the village of Caria Caria on the Essequibo River, to Mr. Sam Ramotar and Ms. Olive Constantine. His father was a Timber Grant operator and his mother a housewife. He has eight (8) siblings. Mr. Ramotar, an economist by More →
Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina On October 23, 2011, incumbent Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins 53.9% of the vote in the presidential elections. Date of birth: 19th February 1953. Place of birth: La Plata, Buenos Aires. Profession: Lawyer Marital Status: Married to Néstor Carlos Kirchner Children: Máximo Kirchner – Florencia Kirchner Background, both professional and in the Public Administration Previous More →
Ollanta Humala, President of Peru (since Jul 28, 2011) Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (born June 26, 1962) is a Peruvian politician and the President-elect of Peru. Humala, who previously served as an army officer, lost the presidential election in 2006 but won the 2011 presidential election in a run-off vote. He was elected as President of Peru in the second round, More →
Dilma Vana Rousseff, President of Brazil (elected on Oct 31, 2010) Dilma Vana Rousseff is 62 years old and an economist. She was born in Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais, to Bulgarian migrant Pedro Rousseff and teacher Dilma Jane da Silva. Divorced, she has one daughter and has built a life grounded in determination, competence and social More →
Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia (since August 8, 2010) Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (born 10 August 1951) is the former Minister of National Defense, and the current President of the Republic of Colombia after winning the 2010 Colombian presidential election on June 20, 2010. Juan Manuel Santos spent most of his childhood in Bogotá and attended middle school and More →
Dési Bouterse, President of Suriname (since Aug 3, 2010) Desiré Delano Bouterse (born 13 October 1945) is a Surinamese politician. As an army officer, he was the de facto leader of Suriname through most of the 1980s, serving as Chairman of the National Military Council. He lead the National Democratic Party (Nationale Democratische Partij, NDP). On July 19, 2010, Bouterse More →
Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of Costa Rica since May 8, 2010 Laura Chinchilla Miranda, current president of Costa Rica. Chinchilla ran from the Partido Liberación Nacional of Costa Rica for the general elections of 2010. Laura Chinchilla was born on March 28, 1959 in San Jose, Costa Rica, the daughter of Rafael Angel Chinchilla Fallas, Comptroller General of the Republic More →
Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez was born July 28, 1954, in Sabaneta, Barinas, Venezuela. Both his parents were school teachers. From an early age, Hugo was sent to live with his paternal grandmother in Sabaneta. There Hugo attended elementary school at the Julián Pino School. Later, Chavez attended high school at the Daniel Florencio O’Leary School in the More →
Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, President of Uruguay Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (pron IPA: [taβa'ɾe ra'mon 'bahkes 'rosas]) (born 17 January 1940) is the current President of Uruguay. A physician (oncologist) by training, he is a member of the centre-left Broad Front coalition (Frente Amplio in Spanish). Vázquez was elected president on October 31, 2004 and took office on March 1 More →
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, President of Paraguay Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (born May 30, 1951) is the current President of Paraguay and the former Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro.Lugo’s family was not particularly religious; by his own account, he never saw his father set foot in a chapel.However, his upbringing was emphatically political. His uncle Epifanio More →
Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal, President of Panama Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal (born 11 March 1952, in Panama City) is the 46th and current President-Elect of the Republic of Panama after winning the 2009 Panamanian Presidential election. He is a Panamanian politician and businessman of Italian descent from his father’s side. Martinelli is the son of Ricardo Martinelli Pardini and Gloria More →
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of Nicaragua Born in La Libertad, Nicaragua, on November 11, 1945, to middle-class parents who were actively opposed to Nicaragua’s dictator, Anastasio Somoza, Ortega was first arrested for his political activities at the age of 15. During the early 1960s, after only a few months as a student at the Central American University in Managua, he More →
Porfirio Lobo, President of Honduras (since Jan 27, 2010) Porfirio Lobo Sosa, known familiarly as “Pepe” Lobo, born in Trujillo on December 22, 1947, studied at Miami, United States, where between 1966 and 1970 she studied business administration, and conduct studies in economics and politics . Leader of National Party of Honduras, Lobo is the winner of the last elections More →
President Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959 in San Salvador) is the President of El Salvador. He won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party and took office on 1 June 2009. Prior to his involvement with politics, Funes was a More →
Rafael Correa Delgado, President of Ecuador Correa Delgado, Rafael Vicente, 1963–, Ecuadorian economist and political leader, president of Ecuador (2007–), b. Guayaquil. A leftist economist (Ph.D Univ. of Illinois, 2001), he served briefly as minister of finance (2006) under interim President Alfredo Palacio before running as reformer in the 2006 presidential election. A friend of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, Correa More →