s presidential runoff on Sunday, riding a wave of hope that brought millions of Chileans to the streets in recent years demanding education reform, environmental protection and a reduction in income inequality. But concerns of a low turnout worried Bachelet, who needs a strong mandate to make good on her promises. "This is an important day and I hope people can come and participate and through their...
accident' in 1976 was foul play by the country's dictator Ernesto Geisel, says commission looking at the regime's crimes A car accident that killed Brazil's former president, Juscelino Kubitschek, in 1976 was rigged by the country's military dictatorship, according to a new investigation. Kubitschek, who is widely remembered as the president who moved the nation's capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia,...
s success. For example, despite their common historical and cultural roots, North and South Korea are very different societies. The former has a considerably lower standard of living, owing to its communist government and centrally planned economy, which contrast sharply with South Korea's democratic government and mixed capitalist economy. Germany's experience after the second world war provides another...
Tennis stars Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and David Nalbandian meet with Chilean president Sebastián Piñera to honour two-time Olympic champion Nicolás Massú on his retirement from professional tennis ...
s presidential election on Sunday but failed to secure enough of the vote to avoid a runoff next month. Bachelet, who was Chile's first female president, from 2006 to 2010, dominated the nine-candidate field. But she fell just short of the 50% needed for outright victory, setting up an all-female runoff on 15 December against her childhood friend, the rightwing candidate Evelyn Matthei. With Bachelet...
s elections in Chile will prove significant, regionally and globally. The centre-left candidate, Michelle Bachelet won nearly twice as many votes as her closest rival, Evelyn Matthei, of the governing rightwing Alliance for Chile . Bachelet, Chile's president from 2006 to 2010, will have to go through a second-round runoff in December but is expected to win. Meanwhile, a new generation of student leaders...
Bachelet faces presidential poll runoff, while centre-left coalition fails to gain super-majorities needed for fundamental reform ...
new era', she and fellow activists are poised to become MPs If someone had told Camila Vallejo during the student uprisings in 2011 that she and her fellow student leaders would end up as elected members of congress, she would have emphatically disagreed. "I would have said you are crazy!" she told the Observer last week. But polls show that three former student activists are poised to win congressional...
s presidential election on Sunday, three names will echo back at him through 40 years of history. First, there is his daughter Evelyn, just turned 60, standard bearer of the beleaguered right. Then there is Michelle Bachelet, daughter of his erstwhile childhood friend Alberto, another air force general who found himself on the receiving end of the coup that tore Chile apart 40 years ago. Finally, there...
s presidential election on Sunday. Ms Bachelet will be re-elected president – the only question being whether she achieves victory in one round or two. The two women do have, however, a shared history . As little girls they were neighbours in the same barracks, when their fathers, both generals in the air force, were friends. But there was always a political divide between the two families, and what...