11.12.14

Today in class, we finished the presentations. I didn't have anywhere near as many notes as before.
- Russia

- Dimitry Medevdev is in the United Russia party

- 3 braches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

- Legislative branch adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has federal power, and can impeach the president

- Executive branch is the president and appoints government

- 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

- federal Republic

Dilma Rousseff is the President

Leaders are elected by the people

The president has a 4 year term

- 1970, Dilma Rousseff was arrested for participating in Political Guerilla

- captured and tortured for 3 years before she got involved in politics

To remove the president, they can Impeach, re-elect, or assassinate them

- when she was young, brazil was a military dicatorship 

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