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First female president of Chile. Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación. 34 Sebastián Piñera (1949–2024) 11 March 2010 11 March 2014 4 years National Renewal: 2010: First democratically elected conservative president since 1958. Supported by the Coalition for Change. (33) Michelle Bachelet (born 1951) 11 March 2014 11 March ...
Chilean National Song (Spanish: Canción Nacional Chilena) was the national anthem of Chile, between 1819 and 1847. It was written by Bernardo de Vera y Pintado and composed by Manuel Robles. It was written by Bernardo de Vera y Pintado and composed by Manuel Robles.
On 15 January 2006, she went on to face Piñera in the runoff election and won the presidency with 53.5% of the vote, becoming Chile's first female president and the first woman in Latin America to reach the presidency through a direct election without being the wife of a previous head of state or political leader. [37] [38]
The year before, she was the first person in Chile to charge Augusto Pinochet for crimes committed during his dictatorship. [6] Sara Larraín was the other woman, along with Marín, to be one of the first female presidential candidates in Chile. [6] From 2006 until 2010, Michelle Bachelet served as the first woman president of Chile. [9]
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major, which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus of the 1819 anthem. This was the ...
Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile; Juan Chandía – governor of Department of Tomé for 1946–1952; Carlos Dávila – former Secretary General of the Organization of American States; Florencio Durán – former president of the senate; Héctor Faúndez – diplomat; Fernando Flores – businessman and former senator ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in South America and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.