Michelle Barchelet

Michelle Bachelet: " The moment of the women is now. We will not return to the kitchen "

Michelle Bachelet is a moderate socialist politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11March 2010—the first woman president in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right businessman and former senator Sebastián Piñera with 53.5% of thevote. She campaigned on a platform of continuing Chile's free-market policies, while increasing social benefits to help reduce the gap between rich and poor. She was inaugurated on March 11, 2006.Bachelet, a pediatrician and epidemiologist with studies in military strategy, served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three anddescribes herself as an agnostic. She speaks Spanish (her native language), English, German, Portuguese and French. In 2009 Forbes magazine ranked her as the 22nd in the list of the 100 most powerful womenin the world (she was #25 in 2008,[4] #27 in 2007, and #17 in 2006). In 2008, TIME magazine ranked her 15 on its list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Bachelet is in yes same an example.Since the first chairwoman of Chile broke all the barriers of kind, though also it finished with social and religious some. Bachelet is a single and agnostic mother. With these credentials it came tothe power of a very conservative, catholic country, which alone recently was provided with a law of divorce and in whose juridical classification does not exist the abortion.Bachelet also knowssomething of the violence that the dictatorships exercise, it suffered it in the first person in the jails of Pinochet, where his father lost the life. But reserved as for the feelings and conscious of theweight that his words can have in the national Chilean politics presided by the businessman Sebastián Piñera, Bachelet? That left the power last year with a few high indexes of popularity only...