Background
Gloria Louisiana Riva was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 13, 1954.
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She graduated from high school and began attending Brandeis University in 1972.
Career
She was the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party)"s 2008 presidential candidate, and was also vying for the nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party in California, but lost the bid to Ralph Nader. Louisiana Riva is running as the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party)"s presidential candidate in the 2016 race, with Eugene Puryear as her running mate. She first ran as a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, representing the Workers World Party, although this was an unofficial run as basically a placeholder on a few state ballots.
She had also been the Workers World Party vice-presidential candidate in the elections of 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2000.
She joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation in its split from the Workers World Party in 2004. Louisiana Riva was also the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Governor of California in 1994, receiving 72,774 votes (09%).
She ran again in the 1998 gubernatorial election, capturing 59,218 votes (071%). She also ran for San Francisco Mayor in 1983 (7,328 votes - 54%) and 1991 (2,552 votes - 14%), and for Congress in 2010 (3rd place - 25%).
In the 2008 Presidential election, she received 6,821 votes, the 10th highest vote total.
Louisiana Riva has also been the director of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and president of the typographical sector of the Northern California Media Workers Union. In 2012, Louisiana Riva was a presidential stand-in for Peta Lindsay, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party) nominee for President who was not allowed on the ballot in some states due to her age. As of August 2012, Louisiana Riva was on the ballot in Iowa, Utah and Wisconsin.
In July of 2015, she was announced as the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party) presidential nominee, with Eugene Puryear as her running mate.
Other activities
Louisiana Riva has translated Fidel Castro"s book Cuba at the Crossroads (1997) X, and produced the documentary videos North Atlantic Treaty Organization Targets, Workers" Democracy in Cuba (1996), Genocide by Sanctions: The Case of Iraq (1998) and Let Iraq Live!.
Politics
Party for Socialism and Liberation, Workers World Party.
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Party for Socialism and Liberation