Pérez Jiménez Marcos

Marcos Pérez Jiménez (April 25, 1914 – September 20, 2001) was a soldier and President of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958.
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Pinochet Ugarte Augusto

Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (1915- 2006), military dictator of Chile (1973-1990), born in Santiago, and educated at Chile’s military academy. Rising steadily through army ranks, he was appointed brigadier general during the administration of Eduardo Frei Montalva. Under President Salvador Allende he became commander of the Santiago garrison, and in 1972 he was made commander in chief of the army. Pinochet was one of the leaders of the United States-supported coup that deposed Allende in 1973, the first time the Chilean army had intervened in civil affairs. By 1974 Pinochet had emerged as head of state. He quickly curtailed political activity, and his regime was condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1977 for its practice of torturing detainees. Pinochet was confirmed in office for an eight-year term in 1980. After an assassination attempt on him in 1986, Pinochet dealt even more harshly with dissidents. A plebiscite in October 1988 denied him the right to continue as president beyond March 1990, although he retained his post as army commander.

Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pronounced /lu’iz i’nasju ‘lulɐ da ’siwvɐ/; born October 27, 1945), known simply as LulaNickname[›], is the thirty-fifth and current President of Brazil and a founding member of the country’s Workers’ Party. He was elected on October 27, 2002, and took office on January 1, 2003. On October 29, 2006, he was re-elected, extending his term as President until January 1, 2011.
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Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Медве́дев?·i, Dmitrij Anatol′evič Medvedev; Russian pronunciation: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪf]; born 14 September 1965) is the third and current President of Russia, inaugurated on 7 May 2008. He won the presidential election held on 2 March 2008 with about 70% of the vote.
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Uribe Vélez Álvaro

Álvaro Uribe Vélez (IPA: ['alβ̞aɾo u'ɾiβ̞e v'̞eles], born July 4, 1952 in Medellín), is a Colombian politician and lawyer who is currently the 39th President of the Republic of Colombia for the term 2006 – 2010. Uribe finished Law in the University of Antioquia, then he did a course in management at Harvard University. After he finished his period as governor of Antioquia in 1998, he won the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at the Saint Antony’s College in the University of Oxford.
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Castro Raúl

Raúl Castro (born June 3, 1931; in full Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz) is the President of the Cuban Council of State and the head of state of Cuba. The younger brother of Fidel Castro, he is also Second Secretary of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and Commander in Chief (Maximum General) of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air Force).
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Obama II Barack Hussein

Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States and the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency.
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Ayub Khan Field Marshal Muhammad

Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan (Urdu/Pashto: محمد ايوب خان), HJ, NPk, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and the President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He became Pakistan’s first native Commander in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full-rank General and self-appointed Field Marshal in Pakistan’s military history. He was also the first Pakistani military general to seize power through a coup.
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Salinas de Gortari Carlos

Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Mexico City, April 3, 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat all the way up to Secretary. He was the PRI presidential candidate in 1988, and was elected on July 6, 1988 amid allegations of electoral fraud.
Political career prior to presidency
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