With all the end of Michelle Bachelet’s term in Chile, ladies leaders are actually missing through the area
The presidential palaces of Latin America are bereft of female presidents. Whenever Chile’s Michelle Bachelet handed obligations up to Sebastian Pinera on Sunday, it marked the termination of a time whenever, at one point, as much as four females had been keeping the greatest workplace inside their particular countries.
The finish regarding the Bachelet management, which encompasses two distinct durations – 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018 – can also be the finish of one thing larger: an unprecedented period of political may for females for the reason that area of the globe. While Bachelet was at energy, Dilma Rousseff ended up being additionally regulating Brazil (2011-2016), Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was at fee of Argentina (2007-2015) and Laura Chinchilla had been the president of Costa Rica (2010-2014).
Lara Blanco, UN Females