CHILE ELECTS FIRST FEMALE LEADER
Chilean voters have elected their first female president, one-time political prisoner and socialist Michelle Bachelet.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/...vote/index.html
I did not know that this new President was also a political prisoner. I hope her past will not cause her to seek revenge as having a Socialist agenda isn't exactly child's play.
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n Chile, former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet has become the country first-ever female president. Running on the Socialist ticket, Bachelet beat her billionaire rival in Sunday's election. Bachelet is the daughter of an air force general who was tortured and died in prison after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. She too was imprisoned by Pinochet's regime before fleeing into exile. We speak with Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman, Chilean torture survivor Emilio Banda as well as Joyce Horman, the widow of a U.S. journalist who was killed by Pinochet forces. Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/1449210 |
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EX-DICTATOR PINOCHET AGAIN STRIPPED OF IMMUNITY
Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years and presided over a "dirty war" against his foes, has again been stripped of immunity to prosecution, this time in torture and kidnapping cases.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ty20060120.html
Bachelet romps in Chile vote but faces runoff:
Moderate socialist Michelle Bachelet romped to an easy top finish in the first round of Chile's presidential election, and heads into a runoff next month as the strong favorite to resume the office after a four-year break. Ref. Source 3
Chile Arrests Ex-Pinochet Minister over Killings of Political Prisoners:
The colonel was arrested on suspicion of being involved in Tejas Verde, a detention center responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in the first years of Pinochet's rule. Ref. Source 6