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Weekly Report - 27 February 2014 (WR-14-08)

‘Bolivarian’ presidents practice what they preach

Bolivia's President Evo Morales is one of the worst paid presidents in South America, according to Argentine media company, Infobae, which this week released a selected list of presidential earnings after the Argentine government finally acceded to a freedom of information request seeking government salary information. Morales’s relatively paltry US$2,176/month is still 15 times Bolivia’s minimum wage, however, and in any case Morales claims to give most of it away. Other ‘Bolivarian’ presidents look similarly underpaid in comparison to their ‘imperial lackey’ counterparts. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro might well question whether his US$6,000 a month is worth all the trouble. Uruguay’s José Mujica, the world’s ‘most humble’ president, gets a fairly hefty US$12,500 a month, more than Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, but like Morales, Mujica apparently puts 90% towards government social programmes, keeping just US$1,250 for himself. Finally, while Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto is the best paid Latin American leader, his wage slip pales in comparison to US President Barack Obama’s US$34,000 a month. Yet even that works out at a mere US$408,000 a year for the world’s most powerful man. The Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović, forward for Paris-St.Germain, earns US$20.2m a year, after tax.

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