My abiding memory of Bachelet’s election will be this: Hugo Chavez on tv saying, “I can smell the perfume of a woman”, humming a little tune the source of which I’m unaware of, blowing a kiss to the screen, and giggling. Now, it’s nice that he feels he can flirt, but ‘yuuuuk’ was my visceral and overwhelming response. More intelligent deliberations over at posthegemony and here.