behind the scenes of leaders....

• President Enrique Nena Neito- Graduated as a lawyer, and In 1993, Peña married his first wife, Mónica Pretelini, and the couple had three children: Paulina, Alejandro and Nicole. Pretelini died on 11 January 2007 as the result of an epileptic episode, 2 affairs.He was 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. Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple’s 3 children, plus 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.  

• Joachim Guack (Canada) -He was convicted by a Russian military tribunal of espionage for receiving a letter from the West and also of anti-Soviet demagogy for being in the possession of a western journal on naval affairs, and deported to a Gulag in Siberia, where he was mistreated to the extent that he was considered physically disabled after one year, according to his son. Also, his father was arrested by Soviet occupation forces. ANGELA MERKEL- graduated with degree in physics, and physical chemistry, and earned a PHD in quantum chemistry 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 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.

• Nicolas Moros- Is married to Cilia Flores and he also attended a public high school. Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s. Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez and other disenchanted members of the military were imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for  Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, serving as one of his closest advisers as well as a loyal spokesman, until Chávez's death at 58 on March 5, 2013, from cancer.

• President XI Jinping (China) -His father was jailed in 1968 and is married to a famous Chinese singer. Communist state, first national leader to hold a PHD, there is a blog about how high his pants are each day, he is described as hardworking, has a daughter that is studying at Harvard University in USA., son of a revolutionary veteran Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's 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 named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

• President Pranab Mukherjee (India) - has 2 sons and a daughter and his hobbies include reading, gardening, and music, rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984, started his own political party, written many books. He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar 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 parliamentarian 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.

• Queen Elizabeth II- fell “in love” at the age of 13 to Phillip and received 2500 wedding gifts from around the world.

• Abdalallah bin saud (saudi arabia)- he was the 10^th son and has over 30 wives and has fathered 22 children, and is worth approximately 21 billion dollars due to oil, has bans against strict women rights, He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79. He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars. He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king. In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope.  In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.” In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban). He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king. In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope.  In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.” In 2011 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).

• Francois Hollande (France)- married for over 30 years with 4 children and got a divorce and supported same-sex marriage, no experience in a national government position, was elected on his 3rd time running, bmom was a social worker and dad was a  physician. Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.The mother of his four children is Ségolène 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 mother.

• Hassan Rouhani  (Iran) -   Hassan - married to his cousin, who is 6 years younger and is considered to be a moderate and pragmatic politician, presiden tMr Rouhani has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council. Was just elected President of Iran - 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. 

• Khameni- elected Iran's supreme leader in 1989, supreme leader. In 1963, 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.

• Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) - was married 2 times and defeated cancer, with a thyroid disease. Brazil- South America. Served 3 years in prison and was tortured, She 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.She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

• Hamid Karazi (Afghan) - married and doesn't own any land or property. Afghan- off the middle east. He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule, speak several different languages, in 2001 he warned the U.S. about al Qadea, He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime. He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French and English.Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded.

• Shimon Peres  Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934. When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from 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 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

• Binyamin Natanyahu (Israel) - As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67 After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, in the course of the Entebbe Operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.Quote: "There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred."