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a woman of the people; On the eve of her inauguration, Michelle Bachelet sits down with John Powers to talk about her unlikely journey from tortured political prisoner to Chile's first female president-and her vision of becoming a mother to her country.(Interview)
Byline: John Powers
I'm not typical," says Michelle Bachelet, the taboo-breaking new president of Chile. "And I will never be typical. I don't feel the need to be."
If anyone has earned such self-assurance, it's Bachelet. When she was just 23 years old, the Pinochet dictatorship took her from her home and packed her off to Villa Grimaldi, the infamous secret prison, where she was blindfolded, tied to a chair, physically assaulted, and told that they were going to execute her mother. Three decades later, she's running the country.
And riding the winds of history. By being elected president, on January 15, she completed what The New York Times ...
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