SANTIAGO, Chile—On Tuesday, Michelle Bachelet will become president of Chile for the second time. Imprisoned as a young woman with her mother during the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Bachelet ...

Bachelet is a physician and surgeon as well as a military specialist, having served as the country’s health minister and then defense minister—the first woman in Latin America to hold the ...

After her father was tortured and died in one of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's prisons, Michelle Bachelet endured her own imprisonment and went into exile with her mother.

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations human rights chief, condemned the conditions faced by migrant children at the border, urging Washington to “consider the damage being done every day.” ...

An interview with Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s incoming president March 7, 2014 More than 11 years ago Supporters of presidential candidate and former president Michelle Bachelet in Santiago ...

In 2018, former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a role she held until 2022. ... Simultaneously, she was a consultant for the Pan-American ...

Bachelet was unsparing. She denounced the collapse of Venezuela’s health and education systems, noting fast rises in maternal and infant mortality, and the shocking fact that some 1 million ...

Chile elected Socialist Michelle Bachelet, ... She served as health minister in 2000 and became Chile's first female defense minister in 2002. Chile is a country of nearly 16 million people, ...

Michelle Bachelet made history in Chile as the first female president elected in her own right in Latin America. ... she has also served as health minister and defense minister in Chile.