With her embattled government about halfway through its four- year term, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet yesterday accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Belisario Velasco.

By EDUARDO GALLARDO SANTIAGO, Chile - President Michelle Bachelet fired her chief of staff and three other members of her Cabinet on Monday in response to a public transportation crisis that has badly damaged her government.

By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - The bodies of dozens of leftists killed early in Chile's 1973-1990 dictatorship may have been given to the wrong families for burial, a mix-up that has embarrassed the ruling center-left coalition.

By Gustavo Gonzlez SANTIAGO, Mar. 11, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet, the daughter of a general tortured to death under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, became Chile's first female president Saturday in a moving ceremony.

By FEDERICO QUILODRAN VALPARAISO, Chile - Michelle Bachelet, a single mother who was tortured under Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the country's first female president on Saturday and promptly fulfilled a key campaign promise by naming women to half her Cabinet posts.