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Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet
Socialist politician Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile in early 2006. Bachelet, who was arrested and tortured by the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s, became the country’s first female president.
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