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(Oct. 20) -- Only a decade ago the scene would have been unimaginable: a Chilean miner -- an icon of the political left -- hugging a right-wing politician once tarred for his ties to a cruel dictatorship. But there it was, the 10-second hug between the billionaire Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Luis Urzua, the miners' foreman, replete with firm and heartfelt back slaps. If viewers were rapt worldwide, Chileans were transfixed. A number of political preconceptions seemed to fall like scales in the dramatic rescue of the 33 miners from the San Jose mine. Pinera, long suspected of ...
Brazilian Presidential Election to Be Decided in Runoff Vote
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIn a historic vote, Dilma Rousseff, a onetime Marxist guerrilla leader and political prisoner, was leading late Sunday in the presidential race in which she is vying to become Brazil's first female leader. With 99.6 percent of the vote tallied Rousseff had 46.8 percent against 32.6 percent for the main opposition candidate, Jose Serra, The Associated Press reported, citing the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. A runoff is scheduled in a month because no candidate has 50 percent of the vote. But political analysts predicted that Rousseff would win and take office Jan. 1. Rousseff, a 62-year-old ...
Maternal Health Emerges as Global Priority
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (Sept. 15) -- With 1,000 pregnant women dying every day, improving maternal and reproductive health is emerging as the central target of next week's U.N. summit, where President Barack Obama and 168 other heads of state are expected. Reducing maternal mortality is viewed as critical for meeting the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals. Next week's summit will focus on those goals, which include halving the number of people living in abject poverty and improving child health worldwide. Ignacio Iribarren, AFP / Getty Images U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, named ...
Melinda Gates on 350,000 Childbirth Deaths: 'We Can Prevent Most'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAshley Judd. Former President Michelle Bachelet of Chile. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand. Former Irish President and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Journalist Christiane Amanpour. Model Christy Turlington. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Singer Annie Lennox. Philanthropist Melinda Gates. All in Washington to discuss one thing: No woman should die giving life. And yet they are dying, in droves. Some 350,000 women lose their lives each year giving birth or through complications of childbearing. It's a number that the 3,500 attendees, from ...
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 Pińera, 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. ...
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