Day: January 17, 2006

Just ticked over 10,000 hits in 68 days blogging (seems like forever). This is a lot better than I thought I’d do. Thanks for reading,…

After Pinochet overthrew the Allende government in the early ’70s, thousands of Chilean socialists fled the country. Many came to NZ, including Victor Humberto Batista….

Abridged from today’s Reuter’s “Chile president-elect Michelle Bachelet, a Socialist who will be the country’s first female leader, vowed on Monday to shrink the gap…

Chile’s first woman president, Michelle Bachelet has an interesting history.Bachelet, was born in Santiago in 1951, the daughter of an Air Force general. In 1971,…

Text excerpts from Pravda online 28.7.05 by Ivan Shmelev “The beginning of the year 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, became a…