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Kinky Friedman net worth: Kinky Friedman is an American country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, and politician who has a net worth of $2 million. Kinky Friedman was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1944. Friedman formerly wrote a columnist for Texas Monthly and styles himself after American satirists such as Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Friedman ran for Governor of Texas in 2006 and finished in 4th place with 12.6% of the vote. While studying at the University of Texas Friedman formed his first band King Arthur & the Carrots. In 1971 he formed the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys. Friedman released his debut studio album Sold American in 1973. He has released a total of 13 live and studio albums with his latest coming in 2007. His 1973 single “Sold American” reached #69 on the US Country chart and #92 on the Canadian Country chart. As a writer Friedman has published several novels starting with Greenwich Killing Time in 1986. Friedman has received the “Male Chauvinist Pig Award” from The National Organization for Women which he took with pride. In 2014 he ran for state agriculture commissioner of Texas and lost in a runoff election in the Democratic primary with 46% of the vote.

Juan Carlos Varela Net Worth: Juan Carlos Varela is a Panamanian politician who has a net worth of $20 million. Juan Carlos Varela was born December 12, 1963 in Panama City, Panama. He has been the President of Panama since 2014. Varela previously served as Vice President of Panama (2009-14). He was also Minister of Foreign Relations (July 2009 to August 2011). He has been the President of the Panameñista Party, the third-largest in Panama since 2006. On May 4, 2014, Varela won the 2014 presidential election against the party of his former political partner Ricardo Martinelli, Cambio Democrático, and their candidate José Domingo Arias. Juan Carlos Varela was sworn in on July 1, 2014. Juan Carlos Varela was always an entrepreneur-at-heart with family roots in the province of Herrera. After graduating from Colegio Javier, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1985. In the private sector, Varela was seated on the board of Varela Hermanos, a family company, since 1985 and was executive vice president of the company until 2008. In the political arena, he worked in political campaigns beginning in the ’90s and was chief of the Panameñista Party campaign as well as the Panameñista Party’s presidential candidate during the 2009 election.

Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado Net Worth: Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado is a Honduran politician and businessman who has a net worth of $5 million. Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado (often referred to in the media and print as JOH) was born October 29, 1968 in Gracias, Honduras. He is the current President of Honduras following his 2013 victory. A member of the conservative National Party of Honduras, he was the President of the National Congress of Honduras between January 2010 and June 2013. He is a lawyer who graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, where he was President of the Association of Students (1988-89). He is also a graduate in social and legal sciences with a master’s degree in public administration from the State University of New York and studied legislation at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras. He is a businessman in coffee cultivation in his native Gracias and in the radio and television industries as well as being an owner of hotels. He gained notoriety/infamy in Honduras when Liberal leader Rafael Pineda Ponce described him as a “cipote malcriado” (spoiled kid). He began his presidential campaign in July 2013 in Intibucá and La Paz with a campaign entitled El Pueblo Propone (The People Propose in English).

Aníbal Cavaco Silva Net Worth: Aníbal Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese politician who has a net worth of $5 million. Aníbal António Cavaco Silva was born July 15, 1939 in Boliqueime, Portugal. He is the 19th and current President of Portugal. Silva won the Portuguese presidential election on January 22, 2006 and was re-elected on January 23, 2011 for a second five-year term. He was previously Prime Minister of Portugal (November 6, 1985 to October 28, 1995). His tenure of ten years was the longest of any Prime Minister since Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese Prime Minister to have won an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. As an undistinguished student at school, a 13-year-old Silva flunked the 3rd grade of the Commercial School and his grandfather put him working on the farm as a punishment. He later returned to school and went on to become an accomplished student. Silva then went to Lisbon, where he took a vocational education course in accounting from Instituto Comercial de Lisboa (known today as Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa (ISCAL)) in 1959. He went on to higher learning and gained a degree in economics and finance as well. He became active in politics only after the Carnation Revolution of April 1974, later that year joining the then-PPD political party. Aníbal Cavaco Silva was appointed Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro in 1980 where he earned a reputation as an economic liberal and gradually dismantled regulations inhibiting free enterprise. In October 2005, Silva announced his candidacy for the 2006 presidential election. He is the first elected center-right President in Portugal since 1974. He is also the second former Prime Minister to be elected President, following in the footsteps of Mário Soares.

Michelle Bachelet Net Worth: Michelle Bachelet is a Chilean politician who has a net worth of $3 million. (Verónica) Michelle Bachelet (Jeria) was born September 29, 1951 in Santiago, Chile. She previously served as President (2006–2010), becoming the first woman in her country to do so. After leaving the presidency, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). In December 2013, Bachelet was re-elected as President of Chile with over 62% of the vote. She was the first person since 1932 to win the presidency of her country twice. Bachelet, a physician with studies in military strategy, served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, President Ricardo Lagos. Aside from her native Spanish language, she also speaks, English, German, Portuguese and French. After a time of much upheaval and even exile during her childhood (her father and her family were tortured under charges of treason by the government of Salvador Allende, a former President of Latin America), the Bachelet family eventually returned to Chile. After Chile made a transition to democracy in 1990, Bachelet worked for the Ministry of Health’s West Santiago Health Service and was a consultant for the Pan-American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and the German Corporation for Technical Cooperation. In March 2000, Bachelet—virtually unknown at the time—was appointed Minister of Health by President Ricardo Lagos. In January 2002, she was appointed Minister of National Defense, becoming the first woman to hold the post in a Latin American country and one of the few in the world. In late 2004, Bachelet was established as the only CPD figure who might be able to defeat Joaquín Lavín and she was asked to become the Socialists’ candidate for presidency. Bachelet was sworn in as President of the Republic of Chile on March 11, 2006.

Danilo Medina Net Worth: Danilo Medina is a Dominican politician who has a net worth of $3 million. Danilo Medina (Sánchez) was born November 10, 1951 in Bohechío, Dominican Republic. He is the current President of the Dominican Republic (since 2012). Medina is a member of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). He won the May 2012 Dominican presidential election, defeating Hipolito Mejía with 51% of the votes. Danilo Medina Sánchez is the only Dominican President who descends from one of the Founding Fathers; Medina is great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, founding father of the Dominican Republic. In 1990, Medina was elected to the Political Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) together with Leonel Fernández and Juan Temístocles Montás. He was also President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic (1994-95). Danilo Medina is considered one of the brains behind the presidential campaign of President Fernández. He was appointed Secretary of the Presidency in 1996 and was one of the President’s closest aides. Danilo Medina ran for and was elected President of the Dominican Republic in the 2012 Dominican Presidential Elections, which ended on the morning of May 21st with 51.24% of the votes. During the elections, Medina’s thesis was criticized for suspected plagiarism by Génove Gneco, a professor from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Gneco also investigated the thesis of senator Félix Bautista and Minister of Economic Affairs Juan Temístocles Montás. Gneco was later removed from his position for overstepping his limits and for not being able to prove his accusations.

Jim Messina net worth: Jim Messina is an American politician who has a net worth of $1.5 million. Jim Messina was born in Denver, Colorado in 1969. He graduated from the University of Montana while he managed the successful re-election campaign for Democratic Mayor Dan Kemmis of Missoula, Montana. He started his political career working for U.S. Senator Max Baucus of Montana in 1995 and in 1999 Messina became Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York. Messina is best known for being White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011. He was the Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota from 2002 to 2004. In 2005 Messina was Chief of Staff for Baucus. He served as President Obama’s campaign manager for the 2012 Presidential Election and became head of Organizing for Action in 2013. The same year he was hired as a campaign strategy advisor for the British Conservative Party and will operate from the United States during the general election campaign in 2015.

Antonio Villaraigosa net worth and salary: Antonio Villaraigosa is an American politician who has a net worth of $3 million. Antonio Villaraigosa was born in Los Angeles, California in January 1953. He is a Democrat who graduated from East Los Angeles College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the People’s College of Law. Villaraigosa served as the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 2005 to 2013. He first served as a Member of the California Assembly from the 45th district from 1994 to 2000. During that time he also served as Majority Leader of the California Assembly from 1996 to 1998 and as the 63rd Speaker of the California Assembly from 1998 to 2000. From 2003 to 2005 Antonio Villaraigosa was a Member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 14th district. He is the national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign as well as a member of President Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board. Villaraigosa was the Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention. During his time as Mayor he was featured in Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Latinos. He was the third Mexican American to serve as the Mayor of Los Angeles. While he was mayor, his salary was $235 thousand per year. Real Estate: In May 2019, Antonio listed his home in the Hollywood Hills for $2.995 million. He bought the house in 2015 for $2.5 million.

Salvador Sánchez Cerén Net Worth: Salvador Sánchez Cerén is a Salvadoran politician who has a net worth of $2 million. Salvador Sánchez Cerén was born June 18, 1944 in Quezaltepeque, La Libertad, El Salvador. He has been President of El Salvador since 2014. He previously served as Vice President of El Salvador (2009-14). In the 2014 presidential election, he ran as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). His prior political standings were such positions as being elected as a deputy for the FMLN in the Legislative Assembly (2002) and re-elected in 2003 and 2006; between 2001 and 2004 he served as the general coordinator of his party; in 2006, following the death of Salvadoran Communist Party leader and FMLN Commander Schafik Handal, he succeeded Handal as head of the legislative portion of the FMLN. In April 2007 he was chosen as the running mate of Mauricio Funes in the 2009 presidential election. Funes and Sánchez Cerén defeated the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). His political ideology is rooted in various democratic and revolutionary organizations to which he holds membership. Cerén was a member of the PRAM (Partido Revolicionario Abril y Mayo), a political party that was against the dictatorship and advocated anti-imperialism. He then joined (UDN) Union Democratica Nacionalista and PAR (Partido Accion Renovadora). He was also a participant of the (UNO) Union Nacional Oppositora as member of the UDN. He was an active member of the ANDES 21 de Junio, a teachers union that practiced and believed in the ideas of Paulo Freire and his analysis on teaching. In the ’70s he joined the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación “Farabundo Martí” (FPL), one of the five left-wing organizations, all of differing Marxist-Leninist tendencies, that later merged to form the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN).

Rafael Correa Net Worth: Rafael Correa is an Ecuadorian politician who has a net worth of $2 million. Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (better known as Rafael Correa) was born April 6, 1963 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is currently the President of the Republic of Ecuador and the former president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations. An economist educated in Ecuador, Belgium and the United States, he was elected president in late 2006 and took office in January 2007. In December 2008, he declared Ecuador’s national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that the debt was contracted by corrupt and tyrannical prior regimes. He announced that the country would default on over $3 billion worth of bonds; he then pledged to fight creditors in international courts and succeeded in reducing the price of outstanding bonds by more than 60%. Correa brought Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in June 2009. Correa’s administration has succeeded in reducing the high levels of poverty and unemployment in Ecuador as well. In stark contrast, Rafael Correa has been accused of authoritarianism, nepotism, attacking dissidents and curtailing freedom of speech. Correa’s first term in office had been due to end on January 15, 2011, but the newly approved constitution written by the new National Assembly mandated general elections be held April 26, 2009. In that election, Correa won in the first round with 51.9% of votes counted. In the 2013 general election, Correa was elected president for a third time with 57% of the vote.