Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Russia, Brazil, and Mexico

Today we finished up class with these notes
Russia:
  • Dmitry Medevdev is in the United Russia party
  • There are 3 braches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
  • The Legislative branch adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has federal power, and can impeach the president
  • The Executive branch is the president and appoints government
  • The main political party is called United Russia it was founded in 2001
  • Countries are afraid to attack Russia because of Putin and his nuclear weapons
  • Putin improved the Russian military
  • Dmitry Medevdev is the prime minister who previously served as the 3rd Russian president



Brazil:
  • Brazil has a Federal Republic
  • Dilma Rousseff is the President
  • Leaders are elected by the people
  • The president has a 4 year term
  • Can only be re-elected twice in a row but can be elected as many times as they want as long as there is another president in between
  • Dilma Rousseff was elected in 2011 and was re-elected in 2014
  • In 1970, Dilma Rousseff was arrested for participating in Political Guerilla
  • She was captured and tortured for 3 years before she got involved in politics
  • To remove the president, they can Impeach, re-elect, or assassinate them

Mexico:
  • Enrique Pena Nieto is the Governor
  • He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
  • The can impeach, re-elect, or assassinate
  • Mexico has a Federal Republic
  • A big thing in Mexico is the Mexican Drug war



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