[news] Chile's New "Socialist" President: Washington's Best Ally?

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

On January 14, 2006 Veronica Michelle Bachelet was elected President of Chile, by a margin of 54 per cent to 46 per cent with 40 per cent abstentions, mostly from young people under 30 years. Heading a coalition of two nominally "socialist" parties, the Christian Democrats and Radicals, her electoral victory was hailed by a vast political spectrum ranging from the Bush Administration to President Chavez, including all the big business media (Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal) and the major international financial institutions (World Bank, IMF)...As in their judgments of other recent elections, the progressives are wrong once again...To understand the meaning of Bachelet's election and why the Bush regime is ecstatic one must delve briefly into the background of the so-called "Left-center" regimes, which have governed Chile over the past 16 years.

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