We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

He was succeeded on March 11 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet from the same coalition. Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðofɾoiˈlanˈlaɤoseskoˈβaɾ]; March 2 1938) is a lawyer economist and social democrat politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He teaches political and economic development at Brown University in the United States.