When the results were out and the cars started to honk, I went for a quick visit of downtown, to the San Francisco Plaza Hotel, where the future president was addressing her voters. The street vendors had foreseen the outcome and were selling Michelle’s portrait en masse. But also a fair share of Chilean flags, […]Read More
If you had asked me a couple of weeks back who the President of Chile was, my answer would have been: Michelle Bachelet. Little had I realized that her term had ended in 2010, with no immediate re-election possible according to the Chilean constitution. But somehow the face and name stuck in my head and […]Read More
