Michelle Bachelet

Ver?nica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born September 29 1951) is a Chilean socialist politician and Chile's first female Defense Minister. She is currently a candidate for Chile's presidential election of 2005, representing the governing Coalition of Parties for Democracy (CPD).

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Bachelet is a separated mother of three. She speaks Spanish, English, German, Portuguese, French and some Russian.

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Bachelet was born in Santiago to anthropologist ?ngela Jeria and Air Force General Alberto Bachelet. She graduated from high school in 1969 at Liceo N? 1 Javiera Carrera, a girls-only school. In 1970 she entered medical school at the University of Chile.

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During the government of Salvador Allende, Bachelet's father was put in charge of the Food Distribution Office, and following the September 11 1973 coup, he was detained and tortured at the Air War Academy, under charges of treason. In March 1974, as a product of continuous beating, he suffered a cardiac arrest that caused his death. Bachelet and her mother were also detained and tortured, at Villa Grimaldi, a notorious detention center in Santiago. In 1975, both were exiled to Australia, where Bachelet's older brother Alberto lived. Bachelet settled in East Germany where she learned German at the Herder Institute in Leipzig and continued with her medical studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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