Word: bachelet
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...Harvard professor and recent graduate both contributed to the successful campaign of Michelle Bachelet, who was elected as the first female president of Chile on Sunday...
...would have thought, my friends, who would have thought 20, 10 or even five years ago that Chile would elect a woman as president?" Michelle Bachelet told thousands of cheering supporters who turned out Sunday night to cheer her election victory. Nor was it just any woman who had shaken conventional wisdom in one of the continent's most socially conservative Roman Catholic countries, which only recently legalized divorce: Bachelet is a 54-year-old physician, an agnostic, a socialist and a single mother of three. Her candidacy also offered the electorate an opportunity to reckon with the trauma...
...runoff presidential vote pits Socialist Michelle Bachelet Jeria against center-right senator Sebasti?n Pi?era Eche?ique. While Bachelet has been the favorite for months to succeed Socialist president Ricardo Lagos Escobar-taking nearly 46% of the first round vote versus the 25% garnered by second-place Pi?era-she has to avoid moving too far to the left in the remaining days of the campaign so as not to alienate the country's large bloc of centrist voters. Bachelet, a physician who would become Chile's first woman president, is unlikely to mess with Chile's good diplomatic and economic ties with...
...presidential races are slated for the region this year, and leftists could win at least five--including those in the two most populous countries, Brazil and Mexico, as well as in coca producers like Peru and Ecuador. Leftists have toppled conservative governments in Uruguay and Honduras, and socialist Michelle Bachelet is favored to win Chile's presidential runoff on Jan. 15. To punctuate the situation, the radical left-wing President of oil-rich Venezuela, Hugo Chávez--the "new mayor of the Latin American street," says Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs...
...confidently walked all across the dance floor, crashing against a couple of chairs on my way there,†Brown recounts. “Rather than ignoring the ‘happy’ young man walking towards her—as I would have—Dr. Bachelet said hello and took me to the dance floor...