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Woman Socialist Elected President In Chile
Michelle Alba Bachelet will be the first woman president of Chile.
"A divorcee and a professed agnostic who has had a child out of wedlock, Bachelet cuts an iconoclastic figure in a devoutly Catholic country..."
"A divorcee and a professed agnostic who has had a child out of wedlock, Bachelet cuts an iconoclastic figure in a devoutly Catholic country..."
Andrew Rice (SLATE):
Her father "died in prison under Pinochet's right-wing dictatorship, she was persecuted and spent time in exile in East Germany before returning to Chile to practice medicine."
"Bachelet studied military strategy upon entering politics and eventually served as the country's defense minister. "The symbolism of her leadership of the institution that had killed her father appealed greatly to Chileans trying to reconcile with their bitter past," the story says.
The new president referred to her own suffering in an eloquent victory speech, quoted heavily all around: 'Violence entered my life, destroying what I loved,' Bachelet said, according to the WP. 'Because I was a victim of hate, I have dedicated my life to turn that hate into understanding, into tolerance and, why not say it, into love.'"
http://www.slate.com/id/2134372/
more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5549961,00.html
http://santiago.indymedia.org/
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=126867®ion=4
Her father "died in prison under Pinochet's right-wing dictatorship, she was persecuted and spent time in exile in East Germany before returning to Chile to practice medicine."
"Bachelet studied military strategy upon entering politics and eventually served as the country's defense minister. "The symbolism of her leadership of the institution that had killed her father appealed greatly to Chileans trying to reconcile with their bitter past," the story says.
The new president referred to her own suffering in an eloquent victory speech, quoted heavily all around: 'Violence entered my life, destroying what I loved,' Bachelet said, according to the WP. 'Because I was a victim of hate, I have dedicated my life to turn that hate into understanding, into tolerance and, why not say it, into love.'"
http://www.slate.com/id/2134372/
more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5549961,00.html
http://santiago.indymedia.org/
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=126867®ion=4
For more information:
http://www.slate.com/id/2134372/
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