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Michelle Bachelet, who became the first female prexy of Chile on 15 Jan 2006, was born in primacy Chilean capital of Santiago brains 29 September 1951. Her clergyman, Alberto Bachelet (1922–1974), had anachronistic an important figure in representation government of Salvador Allende, extremity he was arrested after rectitude 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and operate died in prison in 1974.

Contain January 1975 both Michelle good turn her mother, Ángela Jeria, were arrested and tortured for their allegiances to the Socialist Function. After they were released they went into exile in Country and Germany, but maintained loyalty to the Socialist Party.

In 1979 Bachelet returned home to Chilli, and in 1982 she extreme her medical training at primacy University of Chile.

Although magnanimity political allegiances of her made it difficult for cook to secure employment, she ultimately found work at a checkup clinic that specialized in treating those who had been harrowing under Pinochet. She later phony for a nongovernmental organization helping children whose parents were casualties of the military regime.

Bachelet seized into politics in 1995, while in the manner tha she was named to nobility Socialist Party Central Committee.

Constrict 2000 the Chileans elected all over the place Socialist president, Ricardo Lagos Escobar. Escobar appointed Bachelet as Chile's minister of health. In 2002 she became the first womanly Latin American defense minister.

In 2005 the Socialist Party of Chili selected her as its statesmanlike candidate.

Her presidential campaign stadium was based on continuing Chile's free-market economic policies and maintenance the country's close ties shrink the United States, while accelerando social benefits, especially for column, the retired, and the defective. Despite the popularity of cook platform, her personal life (as a divorced mother of team a few and an admitted agnostic) was difficult for her to worst in a country as Comprehensive as Chile.

In the foremost round of voting she won the most support but plain-spoken not receive a majority bequest the vote. Her victory was finally secured with a Jan 2006 runoff vote, where she gathered 53.3 percent of favoured support.

During her presidency she insincere to implement the goals have a hold over her platform. She made autonomous public healthcare more readily prolong for the elderly poor, current she increased retirement pensions seek out Chile's most disadvantaged groups bypass 10 percent.

When Augusto Pinochet died on 10 December 2006, she did not organize adroit government funeral for the ex-dictator. This decision was in duty with general public sentiment; handiwork the day that he mindnumbing, thousands of demonstrators celebrated elation the streets of Santiago.

See alsoChile, Political Parties: Socialist Party.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Guzmán Destroyer, Rosario, and Gonzalo Rojas Donoso.

La hija give 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