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Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria[a] (Spanish:[beˈɾonikamiˈʃelβaʃeˈleˈxeɾja]; born 29 September 1951[2]) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December 2013 with over 62% of the vote, having previously received 54% in 2006, making her the first President of Chile to be re-elected since 1932.[3] After her second term, she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022.[4] Earlier in her career, she was appointed as the first executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.[5]

Bachelet, a physician with studies in military strategy, also held positions as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and identifies as agnostic.[6] In addition to her native Spanish, she i

Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet was born in Santiago on September 29. She lived in the United States between 1962 and 1963. Most of his high school studies were at Liceo No. 1 Javiera Carrera in Santiago. In 1970 she entered the career in Medicine at the University of Chile. In addition to assuming positions as a student leader, during the Popular Unity Government she joined the Socialist Youth.

In 1974, as a result of torture during her imprisonment, her father Alberto Bachelet suffered a heart attack that caused his death. On January 10, 1975, she was arrested and imprisoned with her mother Angela Jeria in Villa Grimaldi, the main torture center of the DINA (National Intelligence Directorate, which functioned as a secret police). They were later transferred to Cuatro Alamos, a detention center. They both obtained their freedom at the end of that month and went into exile in Australia and later to the German Democratic Republic. In that country, she learned German and continued her medical studies at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.

He returned to the country in 1979, r

Michelle Bachelet is the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.  

Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions (2006 – 2010 and 2014 – 2018). She was the first female president of Chile. She also served as Health Minister (2000-2002) as well as Chile’s and Latin America’s first female Defense Minister (2002 – 2004).

During her presidential tenures, she promoted the rights of all but particularly those of the most vulnerable. Among her many achievements, education and tax reforms, and the creation of the National Institute for Human Rights and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights stand out. So do the establishment of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, the adoption of quotas to increase women’s political participation, and the approval of Civil Union Act legislation, granting rights to same sex couples and thus, advancing LGBT  rights.

Since the early 1990s, Ms. Bachelet has worked closely with many international organizations. In 2010 she chaired the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, a joint International Labor Organization (ILO

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