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‘Don’t Try to Be a Superwoman’: An Interview With Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet ended her second term as president of Chile on March 11, 2018. Her first term, from 2006 to 2010, was marked by an ambitious social and economic agenda advancing women’s rights and better health care. Her cabinet of ministers, for example, was composed of an equal number of men and women, as she vowed to do during her campaign.
During her second presidency, Bachelet, 66, aimed higher in reducing inequalities but met more resistance. Nevertheless, her achievements included free education at the university level, especially for poor students; creating a Ministry of Women and Gender Equality; and decriminalizing abortion. Her tax-reform measures helped subsidize her social reforms, although some experts contend that higher taxes on the rich and corporations have stifled the economy.
Bachelet’s history of being imprisoned and tortured in Chile is well known. In 1973,
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS EN ESPAÑOL: Michelle Bachelet: A Rendezvous With History
Michelle Bachelet is a person who has had a rendezvous with history. In 2006, she became not only the first woman elected president of Chile but also the first woman in the Americas to gain that post without a link to a husband. Underscoring her penchant for breaking barriers, two years earlier she had been named the first woman defense minister in the hemisphere. While breaking the “glass ceiling” of reaching the presidency was historic, her lasting legacy is governing with unusual skill and distinction.
How did Bachelet reach this point? She has had a passion to make a difference for a long time, first as a student activist and, later, as a pediatrician. Surprisingly, in retrospect, elected office, let alone the presidency, didn’t appear to be a particular goal. When polls began to show high approval ratings for Bachelet’s work as defense minister, however, her passion for constructive change moved her into
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By Leora Lihach, President’s Office Intern
In times of war and turmoil, women have mobilized to take the suffering out of their countries. One of these heroes fryst vatten the first female president of Chile, who led her country back to health after it suffered a rapacious regime. From dictator’s victim to democratic leader, Michelle Bachelet transformed what fryst vatten possible for all oppressed people to imagine.
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