Michelle Bachelet News

Santiago de Chile, Nov 9 President Michelle Bachelet travelled on Monday to China, South Korea and Singapore to consolidate economic and commercial relations with that region, and she will attend the Food Security Summit in Italy on her return.

"These sales figures are best explained by the maintenance of promotional campaigns for real estate companies, the positive impact of state subsidies, good monetary policy conditions and the gradual normalization of access to credit for people," Constans told Radio Cooperativa .

The head of the United Nations Development Programme has spotlighted the slow global progress towards reducing gender inequality and violence against women on the first day of a three-day official visit to Chile.

The highly anticipated APEC CEO Summit next week will involve an over-subscribed 1,500 participants, who will be called upon to "lead the change" on the global stage.

SANTIAGO: Silvia Munoz has searched for decades for the remains of her father, who was executed during the dictatorship of Gen.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will hold separate talks with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who plan to visit Seoul next week, the presidential office said Monday.

Chile and Argentina have pledged to pursue full political integration and plan to drill new tunnels through the Andean mountains to bring the two countries physically closer together and ease free flow of their citizens.

SANTIAGO: Chile and Argentina agreed Friday to build road and railway tunnels across their common border in a project aimed at opening two new routes through the towering Andes, officials said.

SANTIAGO, Chile - At first, breaking the gender barrier in South America did not go smoothly for Michelle Bachelet .

Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucania prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a meeting with three government ministers.

Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera held onto his lead in a new poll on Wednesday and looks set to win Chile's December presidential election, ending two decades of center-left rule.

Chilean President Dr Michelle Bachelet, received here today UAE Foreign Minister His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is currently visiting the country.

The Chilean government has declared [ La Nacion report, in Spanish] that it will apply the measure to criminals regardless of their ethnicity, and that only a minority of Mapuches are responsible for the recent attacks in an attempt to disturb negotiations over Mapuche demands.

Chilean president Michelle Bachelet inaugurated last week the country's largest wind park.

Fighting poverty and inequality is a priority for governments throughout the Western Hemisphere that are committed to lifting their people out of poverty and moving them from the informal to the formal economy.

Between now and the end of her term next March, President Michelle Bachelet will distribute 33,000 hectares of land among Mapuche Indian communities in Chile's conflictive southern region of Araucania, the press reported Friday.

Doctors say Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa's health is deteriorating further at the Buenos Aires clinic where she is in critical condition.

The tense relations between the Chilean government of Michelle Bachelet and the country's large indigenous minority are far from easing up.

Chilean women's organisations are not at all willing to lose what they have gained during the present government of President Michelle Bachelet.

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet has celebrated her 58th birthday by dancing a traditional Chilean cueca a ' with a library worker who plucked up the courage to ask.