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Chile's President Michelle Bachelet gestures during her annual speech to the nation at the National Congress building in Valparaiso, Chile, Monday, May 21, 2007.

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  2. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L), his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet (C) and Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo wave to the crowd as they arrive to attend the second term swearing-in ceremony of Bolivia's President Evo Morales in La Paz January 22, 2010.
  3. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (L), Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (C) and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez arrive at the Congress to attend Bolivia's President Evo Morales' swearing-in ceremony in La Paz, January 22, 2010. Morales formally began his second term as president on Friday.
  4. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, left, review the honor guard escorted by Bolivia's Army Maj. Leo Cesar Villazon, upon her arrival to El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Bachelet will be attending the inauguration of Bolivia's President Evo Morales' second term, scheduled for Friday.
  5. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (R) is greeted by newly-elected President Sebastian Pinera (C) as his wife Cecilia looks on at their home in Santiago January 18, 2010. Conservative billionaire Pinera won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America's most stable economy.
  6. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (L) speaks to newly-elected President Sebastian Pinera at his home in Santiago January 18, 2010. Conservative billionaire Pinera won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America's most stable economy.
  7. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (R) shakes hand with newly-elected President Sebastian Pinera (C) and his wife Cecilia at their home in Santiago January 18, 2010. Conservative billionaire Pinera won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America's most stable economy.
  8. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (L) shakes hand with the newly-elected President Sebastian Pinera at his home in Santiago January 18, 2010. Conservative billionaire Pinera won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America's most stable economy.
  9. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, right, walks with Eduardo Frei after visiting him at his home in Santiago, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Frei, candidate of the ruling coalition, lost Sunday's runoff presidential election to businessman Sebastian Pinera. In background is Frei's wife Marta Larraechea.
  10. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, right, shakes hand with Eduardo Frei during a visit to his home in Santiago, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Frei, candidate of the ruling coalition, lost Sunday's runoff presidential election to businessman Sebastian Pinera. In background is Frei's wife Marta Larraechea.
  11. President-elect Sebastian Pinera, center, welcomes Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, right, at his home in Santiago, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. At left is Pinera's wife Cecilia Morel. Bachelet visited Pinera, who won Sunday's runoff election over former President Eduardo Frei ending two decades of center-left rule.
  12. President-elect Sebastian Pinera, center, welcomes Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, right, at his home in Santiago, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2010. At left is Pinera's wife Cecilia Morel. Bachelet visited Pinera, who won Sunday's runoff election over former President Eduardo Frei ending two decades of center-left rule.
  13. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (R) and descendants of the Kaweskar native people cover handcrafted mortuary baskets containing the remains of five Kaweskar natives with a Chilean flag during a repatriation ceremony in Santiago January 12, 2010. The human remains of five members of the nomadic Kaweskar native people from southern Chile -- four adults and a child -- who were captured and taken to Europe in 1881 to be displayed in a "human zoo" were repatriated after being found in Zurich University by a Chilean historian, local authorities said.
  14. A vendor sells effigies of Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (R) and Peruvian military officer V�or Ariza, in a market in Lima December 29, 2009. During the New Year's celebration, it is a local tradition for Peruvians to burn effigies of unpopular figures from the past year. This year, effigies of Bachelet and Ariza, who spied for the Chilean government, will be burnt.
  15. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, center, reviews an honour guard with her Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva, left, Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009, at Lisbon's Belem presidential palace, staring a two-day state visit to Portugal.
  16. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, center, enters the Belem presidential palace with her Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva and his wife Maria Cavaco Silva, Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009, in Lisbon, starting her two-day state visit to Portugal.

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