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Single mother tortured by Pinochet set for presidency
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 04, 2005 03:37pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, December 3, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A WOMAN who was tortured by Augusto Pinochet’s secret police in the 1970s is expected to become the next president of Chile.
With the elections due a week on Sunday, Michelle Bachelet is leading her two closest rivals by about 20 percentage points. Victory would confirm Señora Bachelet as the country’s first woman president and only the second in Latin America after Isabel Perón, the third wife of the former president of Argentina, Juan Perón.
A socialist, a single parent and agnostic, Señora Bachelet defies stereotypes in a country still steeped in macho traditions, where there are relatively few high-ranking businesswomen and female politicians, and where divorce was legalised only last year. |
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