Word: bachelet
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...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 Chvez--the "new mayor of the Latin American street," says Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs...
...Bachelet, and I do believe in her program...
...Brown adds that he enjoys working with Bachelet, whom he calls “an extremely nice and cheerful woman...
...Chile’s Independence Day, a tipsy Brown managed to snag a free lesson in “cumbia”—a Latin American music and dance style—from Bachelet...
...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...