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...Andrés Velasco, the Sumitomo professor of international development at the Kennedy School of Government, will serve as finance minister of Chile under Michelle Bachelet’s new government...
...It’s very exciting and a tremendous honor,” Velasco said in a phone interview yesterday. “This is going to be a path-breaking government in Chile...
...those rare people who can combine the world of theory with the messy world of politics, and he’s equally adept at both,” Rodrik said. “I think our loss in this case is a great gain for Chile...
ELECTED. MICHELLE BACHELET, 54, physician and socialist; as Chile's first female President; in Santiago. An agnostic divorc with three children, she was imprisoned and tortured under right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Her win is seen as a sign of a cultural shift in conservative, Roman Catholic Chile and was the latest in a series of leftist victories in Latin American elections...
...Michelle Bachelet studied in the U.S.," Lagos told TIME. "She realizes the importance of the U.S.-Chile relations...