New update:
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 95% (new)
Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) 82% (-2 from last measurement)
Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva (Brasil) 64% (+9)
Hugo Chàvez (Venezuela) 62% (+8)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 59% (-2)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 59% (+4)
Antonio Saca (El Salvador) 56% (+1)
Leonel Fernàndez (Dominican Republic) 55% (+9)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 54% (+1)
Martín Torrijos (Panama) 50% (-1)
Michelle Bachelet (Chile) 42% (-2)
Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay) 40% (-5)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 39% (-10)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 36% (+2)
Manuel Zelaya (Honduras) 34% (-4)
George W. Bush (USA) 33% (+3)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 29% (+3)
Oscar Arias (Costa Rica) 28% (-16)
Alán García (Peru) 22% (-10)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 18% (-3)
New update, just in time for Obama's inauguration
Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) 70% (-12 from last measurement)
Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva (Brasil) 70% (+6)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 70% (+16)
Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) 64% (+2)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 62% (+3)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 60% (-35)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 56% (-3)
Antonio Saca (El Salvador) 56% (=)
Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay) 49% (+9)
Martín Torrijos (Panama) 46% (-4)
Michelle Bachelet (Chile) 46% (-4)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 45% (+6)
Oscar Arias (Costa Rica) 44% (+16)
Leonel Fernàndez (Dominican Republic) 38% (-17)
Stephen Harper (Canada) 36% (=)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 36% (+18)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 28% (-1)
George W. Bush (USA) 27% (-6)
Manuel Zelaya (Honduras) 25% (-9)
Alán García (Peru) 25% (+3)
Tangent, tangent -- I seem to remember Lugo is a big name in California history, got to look that up.
Answering self, yes, it was a land grant family (Rancho San Antonio).
New update, Obama's first measurement.
Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva (Brasil) 70% (= from last measurement)
Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) 69% (-1)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 68% (+6)
Antonio Saca (El Salvador) 66% (+10; his party lost the presidency, so it's also an acknowledgment of commitment to democracy)
Barack Obama (USA ) 61% (new)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 60% (-10)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 60% (=)
Michelle Bachelet (Chile) 59% (+13)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 58% (+2)
Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay) 53% (+4)
Oscar Arias (Costa Rica) 49% (+5)
Martín Torrijos (Panama) 48% (+2)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 45% (=)
Leonel Fernández (Dominican Republic) 38% (=)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) 38% (+2)
Alán García (Peru) 34% (+9)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 29% (+1)
Manuel Zelaya (Honduras) 25% (=)
Who would have said that, in the midst of the economic crisis, most of the presidents got a better rating now?
Don't we tend to cling to our presidential daddies/mummies more in hard times? (unless we think they MADE 'em bad.)
Recent Measurements:
Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) 84% (new)
Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva (Brasil) 81% (+11 from last measurement)
Michelle Bachelet (Chile) 76% (+17; she's gone from 46% to 76% in a year)
Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) 77% (new)
Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) 70% (+1)
Felipe Calderón (Mexico) 62% (-6)
Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay) 61% (+8)
Evo Morales (Bolivia) 60% (+2)
Barack Obama (USA ) 52% (-9)
Rafael Correa (Ecuador) 51% (-9)
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay) 50% (-10)
Alvaro Colom (Guatemala) 46% (+1)
Oscar Arias (Costa Rica) 37% (-12)
Alán García (Peru) 27% (-7)
Cristina Fernández (Argentina) 23% (-6)
Interesting to note that the President in the last place in popularity on this list, last April, was Manuel Zelaya, ousted by a military coup in Honduras.
