Latin-America: Women in power

In most places of the world it’s very rare that woman takes a position in a high place in government and doesn’t have the same chances that man to become a president of a nation.  However, there is good news for the gender equity.

In Latin-America happens something very strange, because it’s assumed that we were in the land of “machismo”. But in this land  woman has the power. In fact in the last forty years ten women have become presidents, and four of them are in government at this time: Michelle Bachelet, in Chile; Dilma Roussef, Brazil; Cristina Kirchner, Argentina; Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica.

This situation shows that we are in a situation of political transformation in which women brings fresh air in our countries, for clean the image of corruption throughout Latin America.

The first woman that became president in Latin-America was the argentine Isabel Martinez de Peron in 1976 when her husband died in a military dictatorship.  A few years later in Bolivia Laura Gueiler Tejada take the power and became the first woman elected president for her people.

In Chile, Michelle Bachelet won elections in Chile in 2006, which made ​​her the first woman to become president of his country. She is daughter of General Alberto Bachelet, who died in prison after the 1973 military dictatorshis. Bachelet is very feminist and ran the United Nations women's agency.