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...same type of drive can be seen in countries like Uruguay and Chile. In the former, President Tabaré Vázquez epitomizes a left respectful of institutions and eager to develop with help from foreign markets. In the historically socially conservative latter, Michelle Bachelet, a socialist single-mother was elected President a month ago. Since 1990, the socialist Concentración coalition has been in power, working hard to come to terms with the political crimes and economic inequalities of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship...
Cambridge has a reputation as a sci-tech hot spot and a socialist enclave. Now, with Harvard’s help, a new program will bring these two traits together...
ELECTED. MICHELLE BACHELET, 54, physician and socialist; as Chile's first female President; in Santiago. An agnostic divorcé 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...
...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 of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which ended in 1990. The president-elect's father had been an Air Force general who died in the hands of Pinochet...
...Bachelet inherits the reins of power on March 11 from fellow Socialist Party leader Ricardo Lagos, hailed as one of Chile's most successful presidents ever, who leaves office with approval ratings above 70%. So while she'll initiate a sea-change within Chile's traditionally macho corridors of power-she has already hinted that women will fill half of the posts in her cabinet-she'll be concerned about preserving the continuity of the country's impressive economic performance. Chile's economy grew 6.3% in 2005, and this year the growth forecast is between 5.25 and 6.25%, fueled mostly...