Tag: Michelle Bachelet

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  Bachelet returns to Chile for primaries; good chances of becoming opposition presidential candidate

  

  Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet who resigned to her job as the Executive Director of UN Women is to be proclaimed as the leading presidential candidate at the opposition parties primary elections to be held next April 13. She has very good chances of repeating her four year period, according to public opinion polls.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  Chilean presidential campaign virtually takes off with reshuffle of cabinet

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera shuffled his cabinet to allow ministers with presidential aspirations to leave, as his embattled conservative coalition seeks support before presidential elections in November 2013.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 04:38 UTC

  Chilean municipal elections are anticipating a return of the left-wing coalition

  

  Chilean voters punished the political system with a whooping 60% abstention, and President Sebastián Piñera’s conservative bloc, in municipal elections Sunday, which could be paving the way for the comeback of the left-wing coalition in next year’s presidential ballot.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  Relief for Piñera: congress approves tax reform to provide funds for education

  

  Chile's Congress approved on Tuesday major changes in tax laws aimed to provide funds for an overhaul of the nation's protest-hit schools, handing unpopular President Sebastian Piñera a welcome victory a month from municipal elections.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 17:25 UTC

  Former Chilean president father alleged torturers formally charged with his death

  

  Chile charged two former officers in Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship with being the “co-authors” of the torture that killed the father of former president Michelle Bachelet.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Bachelet calls for transitional measures to boost number of female lawmakers

  

  Chile should bring in “transitional measures” to boost the number of female lawmakers, said former President Michelle Bachelet, who heads the United Nations body charged with empowering women.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Father of former president Bachelet was tortured to death by Pinochet dictatorship

  

  The father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 military coup, a judge said in Santiago on Wednesday.

• Friday, August 19th 2011 - 09:45 UTC

  Pinochet’s regime official victims’ list increased by 9.800 to 40.018

  

  Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons to 40,018.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  Wikileaks reveals Chilean government changed environment rules to please US interests

  

  Wikileaks cables last week revealed that the U.S. Embassy in Santiago pressured Chilean government officials in 2009 to change environmental rules so that a controversial thermoelectric plant could be built.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 22:06 UTC

  Chile: an Opus Dei convent or a country on the Liberal path?

  

  Under the heading of: “Chile, the convent of the Americas? A country between the Opus Dei and Liberalism” the German journalist Maurice Weibel analyzes Chilean politics, where the followers of Escriva de Balaguer have a dominating presence in politics and over the agenda to update values in a country on the move to join the developed world.