For those who were children in the twentieth century, women were three important Latin American: Gabriela, Alfonsina y Juana. The Chilean lullabies she never had children but who won the Nobel, the Uruguayan who beauty roses, roses, growing roses in their hands and that he retired before the hour to see your skin does not wither, and Argentina, caged by a little man who chooses the background of the sea with mermaids and shells back in La Perla, Mar del Plata. Latin American women in the school were poets, muses of America, shot through with love. Beyond the irony of a former student, we thank the cut childish grace inspirational rhymes, metaphors contact with the work of hermeneutics that caused the intelligence of the women who could be glimpsed in the verses, the election - also sensed "an intellectual destination, a choice" by outsiders. " Estampita cutting almost patriotic shutter the Brazilian and many other contemporary writers that everyone had to look after. Also, we later learned, cut work and the biography of these three poets. All the genre-one would say now, was out as usual.

Girls Club

Will three presidents, or more, the female figures for the twenty-first century school? Or finally, no exceptions will be women in the curriculum? Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Kirchner, Dilma Rousseff. No, there are more: Laura Chinchilla from February 2010 is the president of Costa Rica, Kamla Persad Bissessar, from May 2010 Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. May the school cut the caption does not like Michelle's no husband, wife Cristina, Dilma goddaughter, labels that both opposition and ruling repeated as if a vital need to replace a genealogy, which is now to stop a man in the appearance of these ladies with power, heads of state. They are the first Latin American presidents. Accountants and added 12 with Dilma. But it is also true that those chosen in this new century have many differences with their predecessors. Leaving in the seventies to Isabelita always cited when you want to talk about the inadequacy and even wickedness of women to power, the nineties were assumed to Violeta Chamorro, with its neoliberal project that earned the Sandinista Front of National Liberation 54 percent of the vote and Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez, the first woman to serve as President of the Republic of Panama, between 1999 and 2004. Others came to power as well, although the absence of the president, Rosalia Arteaga, vice president of Ecuador, took a few days, when the President resigns, Janet Jagan, Guyana being vice president assumes the presidency after the death of her husband President .

Was chosen as the best head of state in the 200-year history of their country, far from the second post got Jorge Alessandri and Santos, President Bachelet would have inherited the power. Salvador Allende in fifth place, followed closely by dictator Augusto Pinochet ...

The difference in this club that starts Bachelet lies, among other points, they all come to continue, not the project of a man, but the political project, ideological and economic system has had a successful former president. I continue, not because they arrive late or after them, but because they were working long before, and in key positions in the project. Women presidents of the twentieth century represent progressive models, from left, with different nuances and counter are sharing many Latin American countries. Policy analysis for the time being, continue with the inertia of the heiress wife of the secretary to the chief ranks for a while, the puppet. So even the best intentioned appears scanning hidden frictions, the pale shadow compared to the true man of power. Could it be that this inertia used to cut women's school in the liturgy we are missing an important part of this game? Virtually no one speaks of cooperation between two powerful people and a large electoral potential, which at that time are a man and a woman or in the case of Argentina and in Brazil. Convenience, agreements, shared benefits and camaraderie seem to mobile available for male politicians. Surely, over time, analyzed the experiences of both the President of Argentina and the Brazilian is demonstrated that in politics, friendship between man and woman is possible.

Dilma and mirror

One of the last and most desperate attacks Rousseff received part of his rival, José Serra, was that they "used too much in the rearview mirror." Beyond the breakthrough that leads to a metaphor that points to the car driving to a woman applied taking into account that installed it is still the advice to "Go and wash the dishes," Serra was putting his finger on a sore and sensitive historical present . The wound in the history of a country and a continent marked by years of dictatorship that today, with three decades of democracy and an economy in recovery, in the case of Brazil, is exultant more apt to look back, review what previous governments made in this regard and hold without danger of losing the governance policies that encourage memory and point to the dignity even leftist critics doubt that Brazil's long reach trial review torturers and dictators as happened in Argentina or even carry out its promises on abortion law that brought so much rejection during the campaign. Dignity, whether as a statement such as social inclusion plans, and regional identity and a certain equality between men and women, appears in these governments ever understood as an index of democratic quality. Trying to Serra, who also appealed to the discourse on security as a workhorse, scare over the past guerrilla, a political prisoner and tortured by his opponent, points did nothing to add actions, past and courage, today substantive revalued, the figure of Dilma. Consistent with its position, Serra also attacked and downplayed the Mercosur, another symbolic milestone in a series of movements, beyond the political and economic, that point, as does the government of Argentina, to integrate with other countries in the area.

Blood and tears

I asked, words, words less if he thought he would survive the lymphatic cancer. Replied that no one holds a campaign if he is unable. He also said that the question seemed in bad taste, not disguise the fact that, beyond a question that points to a State, also goes against the good education that should be asked if you think anyone die. Some say she used her illness to educate the electorate and others say it was loaded to shoulder the stigma of the disease, other side of female weaknesses. The truth is that this dual response Dilma makes clear that it is unwilling to overact typically male positions to prove it can. Bipolarity, the fragility and awkwardness even appear as an old temptation of historians when describing women in situations of power. The problem is that they do while they have it, they are professional politicians, that despite the media side with curiosity that are female, are very well capitalized. Therefore, they differ from their predecessors in that they are not surprised the place they occupy. No sobractúan and what is not so good, maybe even come to forget to focus on gender politics. In the first interviews he gave as president-elect, was asked if she cried. A no president-elect asked such a thing difficult to see mourn a president, it is also true. Dilma yes. Many times. The eyes that looked fixed to Cristina Fernandez during long hours both at the funeral of her husband in his first speech on national TV also worked to count the tears. How restrained, when they broke. The tears seem to be the measure of female weakness. In the tears would be demonstrating that tacit assumption that something is weird inside. But his strength, aqueous advantage provided have been educated to deal with feelings, expose and control themselves, but only after they are admitted. "I cried then and I was crying a little. I did not cry so, at one time. I cried there, when I gave the speech, but then I cried a little. I cried coming home, pretty much. "We note that also cried when he named Lula. And she says yes, then I did cry. Dilma And then adds: "Some say that I did not. Not so. I cried inside, and out a bit. "

Argentina's President greeted her saying, "Welcome to the club of gender", a phrase of belonging, but also a warning to many.