Tag: Michelle Bachelet

Monday, January 16th 2017 - 08:05 UTC
Ex president Lagos nominated as pre-candidate for Chilean November election

Ricardo Lagos, a leading opponent of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who later went on to serve as president from 2000 to 2006, on Saturday accepted his party's nomination to run in the 2017 presidential election.
Tuesday, December 20th 2016 - 08:19 UTC
Macri and Bachelet agree on a Mercosur-Pacific Alliance meeting in first half of 2017

Argentina and Chile agreed to organize a major Mercosur, Pacific Alliance trade blocks' meeting during the first half of 2017. Last Friday Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and her cabinet were in Buenos Aires with peers Mauricio Macri and ministers as part of an agenda of regular meetings to address a joint agenda.
Saturday, December 17th 2016 - 09:13 UTC
Macri's Argentina back from world isolation except from Venezuela and Iran

Argentine President Mauricio Macri said Friday that “we have come from years of isolation and bad relations with almost all countries except Venezuela and Iran.” He added that “this year we have experienced a Copernican change in that sense.”
Thursday, December 15th 2016 - 07:12 UTC
Bachelet furious with Economy minister who accepted an inflatable sex doll as a Xmas gift

A Twitter storm blew up Wednesday in Chile over a business association's Christmas gift to the economy minister: an inflatable sex doll “to stimulate the economy.” The X-rated doll was a gift from the Association of Manufacturing and Services Exporters (Asexma) to Economy Minister Luis Felipe Cespedes at its annual dinner Tuesday night.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 10:59 UTC
Partnership with Latin America and the Caribbean strategic for China

Chinese President said that his country's alliance with Latin America and Caribbean countries was of “strategic” importance as he opened the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Media Leaders Summit in Santiago.
Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 09:19 UTC
Bachelet makes her sixth cabinet reshuffle confirming the ruling coalition keeps losing ground

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet launched her sixth cabinet reshuffle in less than three years in a bid to strengthen her government ahead of a general election next year. The 65-year-old leader is one of the few figures to remain in power from a wave of leftist governments in South America over recent decades.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:28 UTC
South American presidents and who they would like to see at the White House

A majority of South American presidents would prefer to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the White House, while a few believe whoever wins will make not much of a difference for the continent. Nevertheless be it Hillary or Trump there is mostly respect for US institutions.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 11:10 UTC
Chilean conservatives clear win in Punta Arenas, first time in almost thirty years

The Chilean conservative alliance “Chile, let's go” which achieved a sweeping victory in last Sunday's municipal elections, causing a serious disarray to the ruling coalition New Majority with only a year before the 2017 presidential election, also managed to win the Punta Arenas mayoralty for the first time since the end of the Pinochet era.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 05:39 UTC
FAO recommends improvements to Chile's Fisheries Act: environment, food security and working conditions

President of Chile Michelle Bachelet received this week at the La Moneda presidential palace, the final report from FAO on the current situation of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act (LPGA) governing this activity in Chile.
Monday, October 24th 2016 - 10:32 UTC
Piñera's bid for president boosted by landslide victory in Chile mayoralty vote

Chile's conservatives snatched dozens of mayoralties on Sunday from the governing centre-left coalition, in a boost to former leader Sebastian Piñera, the front-runner to lead the conservative coalition in next year's presidential election.