Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet

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  Chile's Bachelet courts Communists for big reforms

  Communist and other leftists were considered enemies of the state during Chile's military dictatorship, a 17-year period that saw thousands of people ... 

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  Bachelet: Chile left's hope in presidential vote

  Michelle Bachelet has a deep resume: daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing a coup, leftist exile during the ensuing bloody ... 

• UN adopts plan to combat violence against women

  Conservative Muslim and Roman Catholic countries and liberal Western nations approved a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women and girls, ... 

• Egypt's Brotherhood blasts UN women's document

  Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticized an anticipated U.N. document on combatting violence against women, saying on Wednesday that it was ... 

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  Lima's reformist mayor battles to stay in office

  After becoming the first woman ever elected to run Peru's capital, Susana Villaran did what no modern predecessor had dared: She tried to bring order ...