Peter Miguel Camejo Guanche (December 31, 1939 – September 13, 2008) was a Venezuelan American author, activist, politician and Sailing Olympian.
In the 2004 United States presidential election, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate on a ticket which had the endorsement of the Reform Party.
Although Camejo spent most of his early childhood in Venezuela, he was a "natural born citizen" of the United States and therefore constitutionally eligible for the U.S. Presidency later in life.
In later youth Camejo showed talent as a yachtsman, competing in 1960 for Venezuela at the Rome Olympics with his father in the Star class, where they took 21st place.
Then-governor Ronald Reagan deemed Camejo one of California's ten most dangerous citizens due to his presence at anti-war protests.
[9] The SWP's policy was to turn its members into "proletarians" by having them take jobs in factories and advocate for a worker-based class struggle.
Camejo wrote a number of articles concerning the divisions evident in the Green Party in the aftermath of the turbulent 2004 national convention, continuing the themes of the Avocado Declaration in opposing attempts to "cozy up" to the newly formed Progressive Democrats of America.
In August 2008 he attended the convention of the Peace and Freedom Party in order to personally endorse Nader's presidential candidacy.
In the general election, he ran as part of the first full slate of Green candidates for all seven of California's partisan constitutional offices.
In a strange preview of the divisions about to erupt on the left in the following year, Camejo first cooperated with, and then competed with, fellow recall candidate Arianna Huffington.
In 2006, Camejo made his third bid for Governor of California against incumbent Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Party nominee Phil Angelides.
Peter Daniels criticized Camejo for "lending his support to the right-wing effort to depose California governor Gray Davis" by recall in 2004.
At the time of his death, Camejo was engaged in writing North Star: A Memoir, published in May 2010 by Haymarket Books.
[24] He last worked as the Chief Executive Officer of Progressive Asset Management,[25] a financial investment firm that encourages socially responsible projects.