Latin American Leaders of the 21st Century
In 2023, this former economist overcame his country’s economy minister to become Argentina's next president.
Javier Milei
This 1993 US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement was superseded on July 1, 2020 by the USMCA.
NAFTA
In 2011, Algeria became the largest country in Africa by area after this country was split into two.
Sudan
In 2022, this Japanese prime minister was assassinated over his connections to the Unification Church.
Shinzo Abe
Plymouth County, Massachusetts is home to large immigrant populations from Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique, all of which have this European language as an official language.
Portuguese
In September, Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison after a failed attempt to overturn the 2022 election in which he was defeated by this former Brazilian president.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula)
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty has only been invoked once in NATO’s 76 year history, taking effect after this event.
The 9/11 terror attacks
This African country has 12 official languages, one of which is sign language.
South Africa
A 2025 political crisis in Nepal triggered the resignation of the prime minister and other government leaders, and the burning of parliament over this policy.
A social media ban
Staten Island and the Bronx are the New York City boroughs with the most immigrants from this country, which was led by Enver Hoxha until 1985, and whose government just made an AI chat bot a government minister.
Albania
Since the 2016 election of Pablo Kuczynski, a political crisis has engulfed this country, whose current president has been its first to serve more than two years since 2018.
Peru
A 1994 treaty signed in the Arava valley north of Eilat formally ended hostilities between Israel and this country.
Jordan
These two capital cities are separated by the Congo River.
Kinshasa and Brazzaville
From February 2023 to September 2024, a pilot from New Zealand was held hostage by a separatist group seeking West Papua’s independence from this country.
Indonesia
Glendale, California and Watertown, Massachusetts are home to the highest concentrations of immigrants from this country, which signed a peace agreement with Azerbaijan in 2025.
Armenia
In July 2023, this now former president was dealt a major blow by his country’s supreme court when it ruled his effort to cut funding for various electoral bodies and operators ahead of the following year’s election for his successor unconstitutional.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)
An agreement reached in Dayton, Ohio under the mediation of President Clinton and other world leaders ended this three-year war.
The Bosnian War
Swakopmund is a German-speaking coastal resort town in this country that was once called South West Africa.
Namibia
Arvind Kejriwal, a leader of this Indian political party which rivals Narendra Modi’s BJP, was arrested prior to 2024 national elections on money laundering charges.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
Palisades Park, New Jersey is home to the highest concentration of South Korean immigrants, most of whom left South Korea during the rule of this leader who implemented the Yushin Constitution.
Park Chung-hee