At an equivalent stage in her presidency, his predecessor, Michelle Bachelet, was similarly unpopular.
If anyone is allowed a righteous hatred of Pinochet, it would be Michelle Bachelet.
Michelle Bachelet Jeria, a doctor of medicine, became the first woman president of Chile in 2006.
But under Michelle Bachelet, the president since 2006, it has run out of steam.
Mr Lugo himself has expressed admiration for Chile's Michelle Bachelet, a more moderate socialist.
Mr Morales will be on hand when Michelle Bachelet is sworn in next month as Mr Lagos's successor.
Chile has been wavering: Michelle Bachelet, the president, leans towards Venezuela, but much of her centre-left coalition does not.
Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, opened the meeting, along with Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact.
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His approval ratings in opinion polls have leapt over the past few months, as have those of his boss, Michelle Bachelet, Chile's president.
It has been celebrated as a feast of democracy by "useful idiots" like Jimmy Carter, Michelle Bachelet and other fools across the continent.
To address fears of becoming isolated from a sometimes unstable neighbourhood, Michelle Bachelet, the current socialist president, has stressed closer ties with Latin America.
In the past 12 months Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia, Michelle Bachelet president of Chile and Han Myung-sook South Korea's first female prime minister.
The socialist countries in Latin America including President Michelle Bachelet of Chile also commended Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, for his victory in the constitutional referendum.
Two former Chilean military officials, Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos, have been arrested on charges of torturing to death the father of former president, Michelle Bachelet.
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We are also simply delighted that the distinguished former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has agreed to serve as the first Executive Director of UN Women.
And at New York Headquarters, we have the new UN Women as you know very well, this is headed by the former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.
The Secretary-General then met with Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and later with Graca Machel of South Africa, two advocates that make up the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group.
Ms Michelle Bachelet, UN-Women Executive Director and former President of Chile, addressed the Board for the first time to present her strategic vision for the work of the organization.
President Michelle Bachelet, who having finished transforming Chile, has now taken the helm of a new effort called UN Women, provided informed insight into the realities of gender inequity.
On July 20th the government announced that 14.4% of Chileans were living below the poverty line, down from 15.1% in 2009, when the centre-left was in power under Michelle Bachelet.
On the same day that the World Health Organisation raised the alert about swine flu back in April, Michelle Bachelet, Chile's president, gathered a committee of experts to discuss the threat.
The left-wing government of President Michelle Bachelet, who herself was a prisoner under military rule, has refused to comment, saying it is not appropriate to speak while the former military leader is still alive.
In 2009 the government of Michelle Bachelet - herself detained under the dictatorship - passed a law allowing them to inherit their parents' wealth without a death certificate and dissolve their marriages without divorce papers.
With a strong global leader like Michelle Bachelet at the helm, UN Women is poised to help bring the private sector and big international organizations into that conversation to make real progress on behalf of women and girls.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet called for the issue to be discussed at a meeting next week of the fledgling Union of South American Nations in Ecuador, whose president cut ties with Colombia after the raid on Reyes' camp.
The United States is the chief backer of the agency, which was formerly known as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Secretary-General has named former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet the Executive Director of UN Women.
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The event was attended by French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault , UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, former President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Director-General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui.
In response, many leaders such as President Lula da Silva from Brazil, Alan Garcia from Peru and Michelle Bachelet from Chile have decided to open their doors to China which seems more focused on a good deal and where the decisions are made by a single party, which can translate into more immediate results.
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While left-wing firebrands such as Lula da Silva in Brazil and Alan Garcia in Peru, as well as socialists such as Michelle Bachelet in Chile, have built broad coalitions by tempering their rhetoric, embracing orthodox economic policies, and financing a broad array of social programs, Lopez Obrador has remained fiercely nationalistic and anachronistically anti-capitalist.
The leaders attending the Progressive Governance Conference in the seaside resort city of Vina del Mar are Presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina and Tabare Vasquez of Uruguay as well as Prime Ministers Gordon Brown of Britain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain and Jens Stoltenberg of Norway.
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