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09/21/2006
Michelle Bachelet
A conversation with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet
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A conversation with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet about the United Nations General Assembly, Latin America, and domestic concerns facing her country.
Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet is a center-left politician and the current President of Chile-the first woman to hold this position in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right billionaire businessman and former senator Sebastián Piñera, with 53.5% of the vote. A moderate Socialist, she campaigned on a platform of continuing Chile's free market policies, while increasing social benefits to help reduce the country's gap between rich and poor, one of the largest in the world. She was inaugurated on March 11, 2006.
Bachelet-a surgeon, pediatrician and epidemiologist with studies in military strategy-served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and a self-described agnostic, which sets her apart in a predominantly conservative and Catholic country. A polyglot, she speaks Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and French. In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked her as 17th in the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet is a center-left politician and the current President of Chile-the first woman to hold this position in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right billionaire businessman and former senator Sebastián Piñera, with 53.5% of the vote. A moderate Socialist, she campaigned on a platform of continuing Chile's free market policies, while increasing social benefits to help reduce the country's gap between rich and poor, one of the largest in the world. She was inaugurated on March 11, 2006.
Bachelet-a surgeon, pediatrician and epidemiologist with studies in military strategy-served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and a self-described agnostic, which sets her apart in a predominantly conservative and Catholic country. A polyglot, she speaks Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and French. In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked her as 17th in the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet
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