Róger Calero (born 1969) is one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party. A Communist political organizer, running for U.S. President in the 2004 election.
Calero, a former meat packer from Nicaragua, has been associate editor of Perspectiva Mundial (official Spanish language newspaper of the SWP) and a staff writer for The Militant (official English language newspaper of the SWP). Calero moved to the United States in 1985 and has been a permanent resident alien (holding a green card) since 1990. Calero was convicted of felony sale of marijuana in 1988; he was threatened with deportation in 2002 as a result of this conviction.
As a non-citizen, he is technically ineligible to become U.S. president under the United States Constitution, and so James Harris, the Socialist Workers' Party presidential candidate from 2000, stands in on the ticket in some states where Calero can not be listed.
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