Michelle Bachelet first met Hillary Clinton at a photo opportunity, when the Chilean was on the cusp of becoming her country’s first female presidential candidate. The two women wound up talking for almost an hour, on women, politics and health policy.
“There was immediate chemistry,” recalls Heraldo Munoz, a former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations who was there. “From that moment on, they developed a close friendship that grew out of similarities in background, commitment to gender equality and their capacity to reach out.”
