The Soviet's plan for global domination... delayed by 35 years.
This will only offer another example of how socialism doesn't work. Even though there are gobs of examples, they always feel the need to provide one more. They have obviously never read "The Road to Serfdom"...
'...single mother of three...'
When was Jesse Jackson down there ?
So ends the excellent free-market run for Chile. Just when things get going well, people can't stand their success, and have to go ruin it with socialism.
Oh well. Going to Santiago in a few weeks. Good wine, still, and beaches. Summer in Chile beats winter in Fargo!
Part of the problem this time was that two right-wing parties split the more conservative vote. Perhaps they could have overturned the coalition if they'd worked together as the left and center-left do.
Chile is one of the most middle-class countries in South America, so it's not likely that Bachelet will go very far in the direction of Chavez or Morales. It's more the cultural shock than any concern about economic or military changes.
The concern isn't that Bachelet is a woman, but because she's an atheist, a European-style feminist, and a divorcee who also had children out of wedlock. For better or for worse, it's not your father's South America.
Bachelet did have some very radical ties during the dictatorship but so far she represents a more European neo-bourgeois left in a middle class democracy, rather than bearded guys in the mountains with guns. The hope is that the Socialists' coalition partners won't let the country slide too far to the left as regards economics or alliances. Time will tell, though.