In Chile, former political exile and political prisoner Michele Bachelet has been inaugurated as the country’s first female president. Bachelet, who is a single mother of three, pledged a “parity government,” with equal numbers of men and women in key jobs. So far she has named 10 women and 10 men to her Cabinet. Her inauguration came on the 32nd anniversary of the death of her father who died in prison after he was arrested for treason by the Pinochet regime following the U.S.-supported 1973 coup that brought down President Salvador Allende. Last week Bachelet named one of her father’s cellmates, Raul Vergara Meneses, to serve as deputy defense minister for the air force. In the 1980s, while in exile in Nicaragua, Meneses served as commander in the Sandinista air force. Bachelet on Sunday vowed to unite the country. “There were times in our history that we were divided against each other–we looked at each other with suspicion. In these sixteen years of democracy, we have worked together to limit the effects of a divided society, of a society that separated us,” Bachelet said. “This is the moment in which we feel united.” As an agnostic, Bachelet was not actually sworn in as president but she promised to uphold the nation’s laws.