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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 16:15 UTC

Tag: Michelle Bachelet

  • Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 22:00 UTC

    Chile suggests the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur should consider integration

    Minister Muñoz, attempting a delicate balance between two groups that have strong differences

    Chile's new foreign minister Heraldo Muñoz ratified his country's membership of the Pacific Alliance, a much questioned group by other regional organizations such as the Venezuelan inspired ALBA and even Mercosur led by Brazil, and suggested that Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance could consider integration. Chile is currently an associate member of Mercosur.

  • Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 08:00 UTC

    Queen Michelle Bachelet is back, but that was the easy bit, says The Economist

    The New Majority of Bachelet seems to commit the same mistakes as the old Concertacion

    Michelle Bachelet became the first person since General Carlos Ibañez in 1952 to return to Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, for a second term. According to a recent official history of the building, the general was a stickler for fitness.

  • Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:18 UTC

    The Chilean state apologizes to the indigenous Mapuches 'for taking their lands'

    The government of President Bachelet also admits the social debt and promises “no more of the same”

    The government of President Michelle Bachelet on Thursday apologized in the name of the Chilean state to the indigenous Mapuche tribe “for taking their lands” and said it has a pending debt in terms of public policies that will allow the La Araucania region, where 600,000 of the Indians live, to emerge from poverty.

  • Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 06:17 UTC

    Bachelet first overseas trip to Argentina next April

    The announcement was made by foreign ministers Muñoz and Timerman (L)

    Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet will travel to Argentina in April for what will be her first official visit since being re-elected for office, the nation's Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz confirmed on Wednesday. Muñoz was accompanied by Argentine Héctor Timerman as he made the announcement.

  • Wednesday, March 12th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

    Bachelet pledges to tackle 'inequality' and draft a new constitution

    From a balcony at Government house in Santiago, Bachelet addresses the crowd

    Socialist Michelle Bachelet promised to tackle inequality as she took the oath of office on Tuesday, returning to power after four years to lead Chile. Bachelet succeeds conservative Sebastian Piñera, who said he was leaving his successor “a better country than the one we had four years ago.”

  • Monday, March 10th 2014 - 20:57 UTC

    All South American leaders attending Bachelet's inauguration on Tuesday

    The daughter of former president Salvador Allende, will take Michelle Bachelet's oath of inauguration

    More than 20 countries confirmed that representatives from their governments will attend the inauguration of Chilean president-elect Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday, Chilean Senate leader Jorge Pizarro announced. Leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Suriname and El Salvador have confirmed their presence.

  • Saturday, March 8th 2014 - 06:32 UTC

    Unasur meets to address the Venezuelan situation next Tuesday in Chile

    The meeting was announced by president Correa and will take place during the inauguration of Chilean leader Bachelet

    Latin American foreign ministers and most probably presidents, will meet next week to discuss the unrest in Venezuela that has left at least 21 dead and hundreds injured and arrested following weeks of protests and clashes, according to the Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 21:45 UTC

    Foreign Office minister Swire will visit Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March

    The minister will be meeting with acting president, vice-president Danilo Astori. President Mujica will be in Chile

    Hugo Swire MP, FCO Minister for Latin America, will be visiting Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March where he is scheduled to hold several political and trade meetings. The minister will be returning from Santiago de Chile where he will attend the inauguration ceremony of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:22 UTC

    Piñera blasted by his own party, but the outgoing president calls for a return in 2017

    President elect Bachelet takes office next week and some of her future ministers have questioned Piñera's economic legacy

    The Chilean ruling coalition slammed outgoing President Sebastián Piñera and blamed him for recent electoral losses that have left the right in the lowest point in its history. The unusually harsh criticism came from members of Piñera’s own party, Renovación Nacional, a moderate conservative party that makes up the ruling Alianza.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 06:08 UTC

    Chilean president-elect Bachelet blasts Venezuelan repression and Maduro

    ”...My greatest rejection of (President) Nicolas Maduro. You do not attack the people”, said Bachelet

    Following the bloody events of last Wednesday, while countries such as Argentina, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua expressed their full support for the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro, others were more cautious such as Washington and the Europe Union calling for restraint and dialogue, but Chilean president-elect Michelle Bachelet openly twitted her rejection to repression, to President Maduro and called for a plebiscite.