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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...
...People were cheering and dancing until late at night all around Chile,” he wrote in an e-mail. “It is very rewarding to feel that people believe that the candidate I worked for can make their lives better...
...Chile, January...
...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 the United States that have been maintained by her fellow Socialist Lagos. In the meantime, Chile, whether under a Bachelet or a Pi?era administration, is likely to want to improve often tense relations with Bolivia...
...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--is all but certain to be re-elected...