SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chileans were voting on Sunday in presidential and congressional elections that could propel a woman into the presidency for the first time and hand the center-left coalition a fourth term to lead Latin America's star economy.
Front-runner Michelle Bachelet, a socialist who was tortured during the country's military dictatorship, was expected to continue the successful mix of free-market economics and leftist social reforms of popular President Ricardo Lagos, who cannot run again.
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