Chile votes today with a center-left FEMALE candidate in the lead

according to polls, however, she may not get enough votes to avoid a run-off election...

Chileans go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, and for the first time in their country's turbulent political history, the front-running candidate is a woman.

She is Michelle Bachelet, 54, a former defense minister and health minister who has become the standard-bearer of the center-left coalition of Socialists and Christian Democrats that has been in power here since Gen. Augusto Pinochet's brutal military dictatorship ended in 1990. She is also a doctor, a former political prisoner and exile and the daughter of a prominent general who was convicted of treason, tortured and died in prison shortly after General Pinochet seized power in 1973.

if she wins the office, chile will join an increasing number of latin american countries who have elected center-left leaders in recent years, among them argentina, brazil, uruguay and venezuela and there may be many more on the way...



in the next 18 months, 19 countries in the region, including the largest latin american countries, are slated to have elections, the results of which will affect more than 520 million people... argentina recently held its mid-term congressional elections in which the center-left administration of president néstor kirchner was reaffirmed...

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