Bachelet está entre las 100 mujeres más poderosas del mundo, Cristina no

La canciller de Alemania Angela Merkel es la mujer más poderosa del mundo, la secretaria de Estado estadounidense Condoleezza Rice perdió poder y la presidente chilena Michelle Bachelet es la única de América latina que figura entre las 100 primeras de la revista Forbes.

La lista de "Las 100 mujeres más poderosas del mundo" divulgada este jueves por la revista empresarial estadounidense coronó nuevamente a Merkel en el primer lugar que ostentaba el año pasado tras desplazar una primera vez a Rice.

Merkel "siguió impresionando al mundo con su liderazgo tranquilo", opinó Forbes. Pero las mujeres asiáticas no se quedan atrás. Entre las diez primeras, cinco son norteamericanas y tres vienen de Asia.

La jefa de la diplomacia estadounidense siguió en cambio cayendo este año a medida que el equipo del presidente de Estados Unidos George W. Bush pierde poder en vísperas de las elecciones de 2008.

Rice ocupa el cuarto lugar, desplazada por la vice primer ministra china Wu Yi. Tercera es Ho Ching, empresaria de Temasek Holdings, de Singapur. Junto a Merkel hay solo otra europea entre las diez primeras, la británica Cynthia Carroll, presidente de Anglo American, empresa de minería anglo-sudafricana.

Bachelet sigue siendo la única latinoamericana que figura en la lista, en el puesto 27, detrás de la candidata a la investidura demócrata por la Casa Blanca, la senadora Hillary Clinton (25).

La reina Isabel de Inglaterra ocupa el lugar 23. Figuran además dos empresarias españolas: Ana Patricia Botin, presidente de Banesto (puesto 40) y Rosalía Mera, en el lugar 76, por su ligedarzgo al frente de Inditex.

Ranking	Nombre	Cargo	País
1	Angela Merkel	Chancellor	Germany
2	Wu Yi	Vice premier	China
3	Ho Ching	Chief executive, Temasek Holdings	Singapore
4	Condoleezza Rice	Secretary of State	U.S.
5	Indra K. Nooyi	Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo	U.S.
6	Sonia Gandhi	President	India
7	Cynthia Carroll	Chief executive, Anglo American	U.K.
8	Patricia A. Woertz	Cochairman, Archer Daniels Midland	U.S.
9	Irene Rosenfeld	Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods	U.S.
10	Patricia Russo	Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent	U.S.
11	Michèle Alliot-Marie	Minister for the Interior and overseas territories	France
12	Christine Lagarde	Minister of economy, finance and employment	France
13	Anne M. Mulcahy	Chairman, chief executive, Xerox	U.S.
14	Anne Lauvergeon	Chief executive, Areva	France
15	Mary Sammons	Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid Corp.	U.S.
16	Angela Braly	Chief executive, president, WellPoint	U.S.
17	Marjorie Scardino	Chief executive, Pearson PLC	U.K.
18	Wu Xiaoling	Deputy governor, People's Bank of China	China
19	Brenda Barnes	Chairman, chief executive, Sara Lee Corp.	U.S.
20	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Supreme court justice	U.S.
21	Oprah Winfrey	Chairman, Harpo	U.S.
22	Margaret Whitman	Chief executive, president, Ebay	U.S.
23	Queen Elizabeth II	Queen	U.K.
24	Melinda Gates	Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	U.S.
25	Hillary Rodham Clinton	U.S. senator, New York	U.S.
26	Nancy Pelosi	Speaker of the House, House of Representatives	U.S.
27	Michelle Bachelet	President	Chile
28	Safra A. Catz	President, chief financial officer, Oracle	U.S.
29	Susan E. Arnold	President, global business units, Procter & Gamble	U.S.
30	Andrea Jung	Chairman, chief executive, Avon Products	U.S.
31	Judy McGrath	Chairman, chief executive, MTV Networks	U.S.
32	Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding	Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention	U.S.
33	Marina Berlusconi	Chairman, Fininvest Group	Italy
34	Zoe Cruz	Co-president, Morgan Stanley	U.S.
35	Amy Pascal	Cochair, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures	U.S.
36	Ann Livermore	Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard	U.S.
37	Margaret Chan	Director-general, World Health Organization	China
38	Helen Clark	Prime minister	New Zealand
39	Tzipora Livni	Foreign affairs minister	Israel
40	Ana Patricia Botin	Chairman, Banesto	Spain
41	Renetta McCann	Chief executive, Starcom MediaVest Group	U.S.
42	Susan M. Ivey	Chairman, chief executive, president, Reynolds American	U.S.
43	Yang Mianmian	Chairman, Haier	China
44	Linda Z. Cook	Executive director, gas & power, Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands
45	Janet L. Robinson	Chief executive, president, The New York Times Company	U.S.
46	Christine Poon	Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson	U.S.
47	Drew Gilpin Faust	President, Harvard university	U.S.
48	Paula Rosput Reynolds	Chief executive, president, Safeco	U.S.
49	Nancy Tellem	President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment, CBS Corp.	U.S.
50	Tarja Halonen	President	Finland
51	Gloria Arroyo	President, Philipines	Philippines
52	Dawn Hudson	Chief executive, president, Pepsi-Cola North America	U.S.
53	Nancy McKinstry	Chairman, chief executive, Wolters Kluwer	Netherlands
54	Clara Furse	Chief executive, London Stock Exchange	U.K.
55	Meredith Vieira	Host, The Today Show	U.S.
56	Christina Gold	Chief executive, president, Western Union	U.S.
57	Ann Moore	Chairman, chief executive, Time Inc.	U.S.
58	Mary McAleese	President	Ireland
59	Neelie Kroes	Commissioner for competition, European Union	Netherlands
60	Laura Bush	First Lady	U.S.
61	Susan Desmond-Hellmann	President, product development, Genentech	U.S.
62	Diane Sawyer	Co-anchor, Good Morning America	U.S.
63	Katie Couric	Anchor, managing editor, CBS Evening News	U.S.
64	Sharon Allen	Chairman, Deloitte & Touche	U.S.
65	Guler Sabanci	Chairman, Sabanci Holding	Turkey
66	Angela Ahrendts	Chief executive, Burberry	U.K.
67	Dora Bakoyannis	Foreign affairs minister	Greece
68	Zaha Hadid	Founder, head architect, Zaha Hadid Architects	U.K.
69	Antonia Ax:son Johnson	Chairman, owner, Axel Johnson AB Group	Sweden
70	Beth Brooke	Global vice chairman, Ernst & Young	U.S.
71	Aung San Suu Kyi	Nobel Peace laureate, Democratically elected leader of Myanmar, 1990	Myanmar
72	Maha Al-Ghunaim	Chairman, managing director, Global Investment House	Kuwait
73	Colleen Barrett	President, Southwest Airlines	U.S.
74	Christiane Amanpour	Chief international correspondent, CNN	U.K.
75	Yan Cheung	Chairman, Nine Dragons Paper	China
76	Rosalia Mera	Cofounder, Inditex	Spain
77	Anne Sweeney	President, Disney-ABC Television Group; Co-Chair, Disney	U.S.
78	Marilyn Carlson Nelson	Chairman, chief executive, Carlson Companies	U.S.
79	Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned	First Lady	Qatar
80	Maureen Chiquet	Chief executive, Chanel	France
81	Portia Simpson Miller	Prime minister	Jamaica
82	Queen Rania	Queen	Jordan
83	Galia Maor	Chief executive, president, Bank Leumi Group	Israel
84	Georgina Rinehart	Chairman, Hancock Prospecting	Australia
85	Christie Hefner	Chairman, chief executive, Playboy Enterprises	U.S.
86	Stephanie A. Burns	Chairman, chief executive, Dow Corning	U.S.
87	Stacey Snider	Co-chairman, chief executive, DreamWorks SKG	U.S.
88	Imre Barmanbek	Deputy chairman, Dogan Holding	Turkey
89	Luisa Diogo	Prime minister	Mozambique
90	Chu Lam Yiu	Chairman, Huabao International Holdings	China
91	Giuliana Benetton	Director, Edizione Holding, The Benetton Group	Italy
92	Dr. Sima Samar	Chairman, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission	Afghanistan
93	Dong Mingzhu	Vice chairman, president, Gree Electric Appliances	China
94	Cathleen Black	President, Hearst Magazine	U.S.
95	Mary West	Cofounder, West Corp.	U.S.
96	Rochelle Lazarus	Chairman, chief executive, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide	U.S.
97	Vidya Chhabria	Chairman, Jumbo Group	United Arab Emirates
98	Orit Gadiesh	Chairman, Bain & Co.	U.S.
99	Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi	Minister of the economy	United Arab Emirates
100	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	President	Liberia