Re: michelle bachelet -- how does she pronounce her name?


"nando***" <nando***@xxxxxxxxx> wrote...

> anyway her name is pronounce michel bachelet, both /ch/ as in church or
> chair, and with a sounded final /t/ (as in pinochet).

freaky dates

Datos translates to data, not dates!

> about her, there´s a lot: daughter of an Air Force
> general, who refused to join the sept 11th coup, tortured along with
> her mom (some said she was raped also), exiled to germany, where she
> learn the language in 6 month well enough to finish top of her class
> (she is a physician), she later studied defence issues, again top of
> her class (she was the only civilian there), later on minister of
> Health and after that she was the first woman appointed Minister of
> Defense (2º in the world after a dane o swede lady), an so on, they
> say she will be the fist woman to be elected president in Chile and in
> south-america.

Well, the first that didn't follow their husband into office anyway.

What's more, she's had three kids by three different fathers -- not bad
going in a country that didn't even have divorce till last year!

John.


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