Bachelet wins in Chile

this is a good thing... the last thing chile needed (or any country for that matter) was a berlusconi-type, major-money conservative...

Michelle Bachelet, a Socialist, a doctor and a former political prisoner and exile, on Sunday became the first woman to be elected president of Chile, decisively defeating Sebastián Piñera, a conservative billionaire businessman.

With the count nearly complete, Ms. Bachelet, the candidate of a left-center coalition led by Socialists and Christian Democrats, had 53.5 percent of the vote. That assured another four years in power for the coalition, which has governed Chile without interruption since Gen. Augusto Pinochet was forced to step down in 1990. It also meant continued frustration for right-wing parties, still stained by their association with the 17 years of the Pinochet dictatorship.

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