Racy cartoons irk Chile’s president
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In slightly more than 15 months in office, Chilean president Michelle Bachelet has suffered violent student protests, a botched public transportation plan, plummeting poll ratings and the hospitalization this month of her eldest daughter, Francisca Davalos, 23, with a blood clot on her brain.
La Presidenta also had to scurry off a stage the other day with a stomach bug, and the details of the offending meal and her subsequent trips to the lavoratory were chronicled in the press.
“El menú that knocked out Michelle,” read the headline in Las Ultimas Noticias, a Santiago daily.
But a cheeky animated comedy show, ``Nada Que Ver,’’ [Nothing to Do With It], which airs on the Sony Entertainment channel in Latin America, may mark the low point for Chile’s first woman president.
Las Ultimas Noticias noted in its cover Wednesday, the politically incorrect program was especially brutal in its depiction of Bachelet. The irreverent episode lampoons an imaginary ``summit’’ of Latin American leaders..
Bachelet, cheerily serving empanadas from a tray, draws sundry sexist barbs.
Things get worse. In a skit called “Kofi Time,” former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan gets a bit suggestive with Bachelet.
Other Latin American notables, including the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, are set to appear in future episodes of the series, TV execs tell the Santiago daily El Mercurio.
Posted by Patrick J. McDonnell in Santiago, Chile