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Friday, November 11, 2005
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Chile Favors MERCOSUR Integration
Montevideo, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) Chile´s President Ricardo Lagos called for Latin American integration Friday and recognized that "we are all called to be members in this project, alluding to Venezuela´s entry in the Southern Common Market.
Speaking to the 29th presidential MERCOSUR summit, the head of state championed turning MERCOSUR into a long-term political strategic project to face jointly the challenges of globalization.
MERCOSUR is composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and now Venezuela, plus Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador as associated states.
In an interview Lagos mentioned the zero tariff -on most exports- agreement signed with Bolivia as powerful signal to boost relations with Bolivia, and said he and Bolivian President Eduardo Rodriguez dialogued on the continuity of bilateral relations.
For the last two years Chile has prioritized signing free trade agreements with countries outside the region.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-11T201530Z_01_MOL150534_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHILE-ELECTION.xml
Chileans may elect woman leader on Sunday
By Fiona Ortiz
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A socialist who was tortured and exiled under Chile's military dictatorship moved a step closer to becoming the country's first woman leader as voters in Latin America's star economy cast ballots on Sunday.
Polls show front-runner Michelle Bachelet is likely to become the fourth consecutive president from the center-left coalition that has been in power since the end in 1990 of Augusto Pinochet's 17-year regime.
But Bachelet, who won popularity in 2003 as an unlikely defense minister, was not anticipated to get the more than 50 percent of the vote needed to win in the first round against two candidates from the divided rightist opposition.
Riding Chile's robust economy she is expected to triumph in a run-off on January 15, probably with a firm hold on Congress, where her bloc is expected to solidify majorities in both houses in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
"This is a day where each woman and each man is worth the same, one vote. ... I'm confident we are going to elect a woman president for the first time in Chile's history," Bachelet said after casting her ballot.
Chileans lined up to vote in scorching summer weather. Red Cross workers helped people who collapsed in the heat at several polling stations.
The earliest polling stations to open in the morning started to close at 4:00 p.m. (1900 GMT) and the first official results will be released at 6:30 p.m. (2130 GMT).
"We (women) have to demonstrate that we are capable. We are in charge at home and we can also be in charge (of the country)," said Maria Ines Rigole, 49, who cast a ballot for Bachelet in eastern Santiago.
Bachelet, a separated mother of three and an agnostic, represents a dramatic change in Chile over the last five years in attitudes about birth control, homosexuality and teenage sex. Chile legalized divorce just last year.
She has pledged a major overhaul of Chile's private pension system, and is expected to continue the successful mix of free-market economics and leftist social reforms of popular President Ricardo Lagos, who cannot run again. If elected, Bachelet will serve a four-year term.
BOTH RIGHTISTS AIM FOR SECOND ROUND
Each of the right-wing opposition candidates proclaimed he would be the one to face Bachelet in the run-off.
"There will be a second round and it will be Michelle Bachelet on one side, leading the somewhat worn-out (ruling bloc), and me on the other side heading a new, younger, stronger coalition," said billionaire former Sen. Sebastian Pinera, who represents the right's moderate wing.
Pinera, who has promised to create 1 million jobs to bring down stubbornly high unemployment, was favored in opinion polls over the more conservative Joaquin Lavin, who made the fight against crime a key campaign issue.
"I am absolutely sure that I am going to go to the second round. I believe in the ... hidden vote of the people who were quiet during the opinion polls," said Lavin, who came close to winning the presidency in a tight 2000 run-off with Lagos.
Pinochet, 90, did not vote because he is under house arrest on charges of human rights abuses. In elections six years ago he was being held in London on a Spanish arrest warrant, also on human rights abuse accusations.
Chile, a narrow country of 16 million people along South America's Pacific coast, is a regional model of political and economic stability, with impressive modern infrastructure, little corruption and one of the lowest poverty indices.
A smiling Lagos was cheered by a crowd of more than a hundred people when he went to vote.
He is leaving with his approval rating at 60 percent, and with the economy booming thanks to record high prices for copper, the country's main export, and strong demand for other products such as wood pulp, wine, salmon and fertilizer.
(Additional reporting by Lisa Yulkowski)
PREDICTIONS: GREEN BAY V DETROIT, 12/11/5
1: pearmann will be stupid, wear an ugly sweater and, with the remaining 8:00, bury his face in the BK menu, resulting in time running out on a miracel brett favre comeback.
2: gado will have 100 yards rushing, over 4 yards per carry.
3: the defense will get 3 turnovers.
4: jeff garcia, while an inspiration to burn victims everywhere, will struggle today.
5: ahmad 'flagboy' carroll will get a couple penalties deep on those rangy detroit WRs.
6: longwell will miss a FG, due to sander's shitty holding skills. sherman will say 'we will fix that.' but wont, because sanders is his boy.
7: sanders will average 30 yards per punt, proving that he cant kick in weather.
8: donald lee will drop a deep pass, even though he is open.
9: my man poppinga will hit garcia HARD. he will also score today.
10: there will be many KEEP MILLEN signs at lambeau
11: the packers will play well enough to win, but due to sherman's incompetence at clock management, fear of coaching brett favre, and unwillingness to confront bj sanders, the packers will NOT win the game. sherman will also make varios gaffes and be outcoached by DICK 'i suck shit' JAURAN. after the game, heim's assbuddies will blame injuries.
12: favre will throw THREE INTs. he will injure his hand worse than it already is.
13: we WON'T see rodgers.
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