Chile’s Bachelet Will Try to Win Over Social Movement

[Judi Lynn]

Chile’s Bachelet Will Try to Win Over Social Movement
By Marianela Jarroud

SANTIAGO, Mar 28 2013 (IPS) - Michelle Bachelet, who hopes to win a second presidential term in Chile, will have to win over the growing social movement that has been heavily critical of the current right-wing administration and disillusioned with 20 years of government by the centre-left coalition.

Bachelet returned this week to a country that is markedly different than the one she left after the end of her four-year term, in March 2010. In the last two years, student organisations, trade unions and other civil society groups have held the largest protests since the resistance to the 1973-1990 military dictatorship of the late General Augusto Pinochet.

“She is now finding a large and significant part of society that wants change, and not merely improvements of the current model,” anthropologist Mauricio Rojas, a professor at the Alberto Hurtado University, told IPS.

“It is a group that was culturally, socially and politically invisible for 30 years, but has now woken up,” he said.

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1. First I thought it said Cate Blanchett!

Hahaha!!!

[idwiyo]

2. K&R

[ocpagu]

3. Very good to learn...

... that Chile wants true changes "and not merely improvements of the current model".

Hope this will provide Bachelet with the support to be more bold. There is a lot to be done in Chile in social terms.