Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet (born September 29, 1951) was a Socialist president of Chile. She ruled her country from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018.[1] She is a member of Socialist Party of Chile. Bachelet is the first director of United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. (UN Women) Bachelet is an agnostic.[2]
Her father Alberto Bachelet was a supporter of Marxist dictator Salvador Allende.
Immigration policies
During her second government, a pro-immigrant policy was applied. The immigrant population went from 1% to 6.1%[3] with certain communities reaching historic numbers in the population such as Haitians, Venezuelans, Colombians and Ecuadorians, changing the demographics of Chile drastically. A lot are illegally since they entered with tourism visa and remained in the country after it expired.[4] The former minister of foreign affairs, Heraldo Muñoz, admited that the government knew about the Haitian immigrant traffic and that they only notified the Haitian Government about it.[5]
Bachelet also gave the chilean nationality to the children of the illegal immigrants, disrespecting the laws of Chile.[6]
In August 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council chose Bachelet to lead the agency.[7]
References
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/11/socialist-michelle-bachelet-may-get-no-honeymoon-in-her-second-go-round-as/
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120902040.html
- ↑ Chile es el país americano con mayor aumento de inmigrantes. diarioestrategia.cl (9 November 2018).
- ↑ Haitianos en Chile esperan por horas a la intemperie para regularizar situación migratoria (es) (21 September 2018).
- ↑ Los vaivenes del polémico pacto migratorio - Mesa Central - 16 de diciembre (es). T13 (16 December 2018).
- ↑ Presidenta Bachelet encabeza lanzamiento del proyecto “Chile Reconoce”, para rectificar nacionalidad chilena de hijos de extranjeros transeúntes (es). Revista Sur (2017).
- ↑ Newman, Alex (August 10, 2018). Castro-loving Socialist to Lead UN “Human Rights” Bureaucracy. The New American. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
