Michelle Bachelet Returns To Her Old Job, Being President Of Chile
Weekend Edition March 21-23, 2014
The Revolutionary Spirit is Alive in Chile
Michelle Bachelet Returns To Her Old Job, Being President Of Chile
by BRIAN MCAFEE
Michelle Bachelet’s first term as president of Chile ran from 2006 to 2010. After her term as president ended she was chosen to head “UN Women”, a newly created UN entity that promotes gender equality.
Bachelet accepted the presidential sash from Senate President Isabel Allende, the daughter of Chile’s late Socialist President Salvador Allende. Both women have had remarkable lives given the hardships both have had to endure. Michelle Bachelet’s father, Air Force General Alberto Bachelet, was loyal to the idea of democracy and to the Allende presidency. Because of this on September 11, 1973, the day of the Pinochet/Nixon Kissinger coup, he was jailed.
General Bachelet died March 12, 1974 in one of Pinochet’s prisons. Banchelet died of a heart attack after being tortured. Michelle Bachelet and her mother were also imprisoned for a short time, but fortunately they were able to flee the country where they fled to Cuba for a year and spent another 15 years in Mexico.
The Pinochet/Nixon Kissinger junta killed at least 3,206 Chilean and foreigners living in Chile. Thousands more were imprisoned and tortured because of their political beliefs.
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