We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

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.