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Michelle Bachelet Moved Chilean Government from Macho to Maternal
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyMichelle Bachelet is a divorced mother of three, a self-described socialist and an unapologetic atheist, an unlikely profile for the president of Chile, a conservative, Catholic country, which elected her in 2006, the first woman to rise to the top of the dominantly male hierarchy. Before achieving the presidency, she was the first female defense minister in all of the Americas (that includes the United States and Canada) and when she first sat down with her stunned male counterparts in Latin America, she ticked off all that was obvious – "I'm a woman" – along with her marital ...
Kissinger's 1976 Cable Sheds More Light on 'Operation Condor'
By Peter Kornbluh - Politics DailyOn the morning of Sept. 21, 1976, former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and two young colleagues drove to work in the scenic Washington neighborhood known as Embassy Row. As Letelier's Chevrolet Chevelle passed the residency of the Chilean ambassador and rounded Sheridan Circle, a bomb placed under the driver's seat by agents of the Chilean secret police detonated. Letelier, a vocal critic of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, died at the scene. His 26-year-old colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, bled to death from a shard of metal that struck her jugular vein. Her husband, Michael ...
Crusading Spanish Judge Is Indicted for Franco Probe
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(April 8) -- Spain's most famous judge, who ordered the arrest and extradition of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity, may go on trial himself because of an investigation he began into a dictator closer to home: Francisco Franco. Baltasar Garzon, 54, faces the end of his judicial career after a Spanish magistrate this week indicted him for overstepping his legal bounds when he launched a probe into some of the atrocities committed under the 36-year reign of Generalissimo Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1973. If convicted, Garzon could be barred from the bench ...
Michelle Bachelet Is Chile's Steely Survivor
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(March 2) -- The catastrophic earthquake that rattled Chile just two weeks before President Michelle Bachelet leaves office is almost certainly not enough to define her political legacy. For Bachelet -- who lost her father in 1974 after months of torture under Augusto Pinochet's brutal rule and was later tortured herself -- the earthquake is just one more challenge in a life punctuated by tectonic shifts. Barred under law from serving a second term, the socialist Bachelet will be succeeded March 11 by right-wing billionaire Sebastian Piñera, who managed the 1989 presidential campaign for a ...
What Gordon Brown Can Learn From Massachusetts and Chile
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIf British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't watch CNN International last week, let's hope that one of his staffers did. Two landmark elections in Chile and Massachusetts delivered stunning victories for right-wing political parties. And in my humble opinion, both elections have portentous implications for the upcoming elections in the U.K. ...
Stalking Tzipi Livni: British Law Emboldens Court in 'War Crimes' Crusade
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyJust when you thought there might be some glimmer of hope for the Middle East peace process, things got a little more complicated. Earlier this week, the public learned that a U.K. court had issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. A diplomatic conflict between the two nations has been escalating ever since. ...
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