Women for President

North Americans usually think of Latin America as a region that is less advanced and less modernized than the United States. In the past I bought into this huge generalization without really examining the facts, and the fact is that so far there are two female presidents in Latin America, and there will potentially be a third with the nomination of Blanca Ovelar in Paraguay. This not only disembles notions that Latin American women are strictly confined to tradtitional gender roles it shows that some Latin American countries are surpassing the United States in areas of modern mind-set and institution. Here is an article on Ovelar's nomination.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/21/paraguay.politics.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch