It's almost unbelievable. The people of Chile have elected their first female president. More importantly, Michelle Bachelet is a single mother and a survivor of Pinochet's torture. That makes her victory even sweeter, because she has defied the worldwide trend of the single-mother-hating radical right, which in country after country has initiated coups and fixed elections to install governments of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.

Bachelet has declared that she will take advantage of record copper prices to improve education and conditions for the less fortunate. What would her opponent, conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera, have done with all that booty? Trickled it down to the poor?

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