Chile’s First WOMAN President!!!!
Michelle Bachelet, just sworn in yesterday becoming Chille’s first woman president. Ms. Bachelet is a medical doctor and was previously a defence minister. Michelle and her mother were held and tortured by Chille’s dictatorship. They ran away to Australia after being released and lived mostly in Sydney and spent time in Melbourne.”Our strength will be the women,” Bachelet, 54, told a large crowd(mostly female) of thousands downtown as she made her initial address as chief of state from the presidential palace, La Moneda. “In Chile, there will be no forgotten citizens. This is my promise.”
“We want a more prosperous, more just, more equal, more inclusive future,” Ms. Bachelet told thousands of cheering Chileans from the balcony of the government palace in Santiago.”I shall keep my word. I shall tell you what I think and I shall do what I say. I give you my word as a woman,” she said. Dr.Bachete is only the second elected female leader in South America!
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March 12th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Wow, great job Allie! I really support this, because the president is a woman, and thats a first as you said. I really hope there are more woman presidents around the world!
March 15th, 2006 at 5:15 am
Allie, Awesome job, I like the picture especially. Wow…A woman president doesnt come very often, glad to see it did in chile.