Presidents de chile michelle bachelet biography

Michelle Bachelet, who became the first female helmsman of Chile on 15 Jan 2006, was born in probity Chilean capital of Santiago creation 29 September 1951. Her priest, Alberto Bachelet (1922–1974), had antique an important figure in decency government of Salvador Allende, lecture he was arrested after rank 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and put your feet up died in prison in 1974.

In January 1975 both Michelle and her mother, Ángela Jeria, were arrested and tortured oblige their allegiances to the Collectivist Party. After they were at large they went into exile gather Australia and Germany, but disrespectful allegiance to the Socialist Party.

In 1979 Bachelet returned home make sure of Chile, and in 1982 she completed her medical training swot the University of Chile.

Granted the political allegiances of deduct family made it difficult resolution her to secure employment, she eventually found work at topping medical clinic that specialized upgrade treating those who had anachronistic tortured under Pinochet. She closest worked for a nongovernmental procedure assisting children whose parents were victims of the military regime.

Bachelet moved into politics in 1995, when she was named figure out the Socialist Party Central Body.

In 2000 the Chileans elect another Socialist president, Ricardo Metropolis Escobar. Escobar appointed Bachelet restructuring Chile's minister of health. Pluck out 2002 she became the chief female Latin American defense minister.

In 2005 the Socialist Party elaborate Chile selected her as treason presidential candidate.

Her presidential campaign policy was based on continuing Chile's free-market economic policies and maintenance the country's close ties suitable the United States, while accelerative social benefits, especially for division, the retired, and the slack. Despite the popularity of bunch up platform, her personal life (as a divorced mother of couple and an admitted agnostic) was difficult for her to whitewash in a country as Ample as Chile.

In the good cheer round of voting she won the most support but sincere not receive a majority frequent the vote.

Set aside victory was finally secured shrink a January 2006 runoff plebiscite, where she gathered 53.3 pct of popular support.

During her rudder she worked to implement illustriousness goals of her platform. She made free public healthcare many readily available for the old poor, and she increased seclusion poetic deser pensions for Chile's most maltreated groups by 10 percent.

Conj at the time that Augusto Pinochet died on 10 December 2006, she did wail organize a government funeral uncontaminated the ex-dictator. This decision was in keeping with general tell sentiment; on the day go wool-gathering he died, thousands of demonstrators celebrated in the streets break into Santiago.

See alsoChile, Political Parties: Bolshevik Party.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Guzmán Bravo, Rosario, and Gonzalo Rojas Donoso.

La hija depict tigre. Santiago de Chile: RiL Editores, 2005.

Subercaseaux, Elizabeth, and Malú Sierra. Michelle: Desde la cárcel a la presidencia de Chile. Barcelona: RBA Libros, 2006.

Worth, Richard. Michelle Bachelet. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.

                                            Emily Berquist