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Tag: Michelle Bachelet

  • 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.

  • Friday, January 31st 2014 - 06:32 UTC

    Peru and Chile committed to 'gradual and timely' implementation of maritime border ruling

    Piñera and Humala made a display of unity and appeasement

    As the echoes of Monday’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) continued to reverberate in Santiago and Lima, Presidents Ollanta Humala and Sebastián Piñera of Peru and Chile met on the sidelines of the CELAC (Community of Latin America and Caribbean States) summit in Havana in a show of unity.

  • Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 00:54 UTC

    Chile, Peru prepare as Hague Court sets to resolve territorial dispute

    President Piñera met with former presidents to transmit unity

    With the decision over ongoing maritime dispute between Chile and Peru just weeks away, government officials on both sides insist relations between them are strong. On Jan. 27 Peru and Chile are set to find out who has legal ownership over 14,500 square miles of fishing waters off their borders, putting an end to a centuries-long dispute and ending a five year international court case.

  • Monday, December 16th 2013 - 11:02 UTC

    Bachelet sweeps in but as in the first round abstention prevailed

    The president-elect celebrates but on Sunday 5.7 million ballots were cast out of over 12 million

    Michelle Bachelet is set to resume her former position as president of Chile in March 2014 after a resounding second round victory against her opponent and former childhood playmate, Evelyn Matthei. In an acceptance speech late Sunday night the president-elect touched on two key platforms of her campaign: free higher education and a new constitution.

  • Monday, December 16th 2013 - 01:46 UTC

    Bachelet wins presidential election in Chile

    Presidential candidate and former President Michelle Bachelet gives the thumbs up sign during a victory rally in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.

    Socialist Michelle Bachelet, who was Chile's president from 2006 to 2010, cruised to victory in Sunday's presidential runoff.