Question: Who was the first woman president of Chile?
About the article "Chile", section "21st century".

Candidate passages:
Alicia Cañas Zañartu (Paris, France, August 1901 - Santiago, Chile, March 27, 2002) was a Chilean politician.
In 1935, she was the first woman elected to public office by popular vote in the country.
Through this vote, became the first woman mayor in Providencia, the first woman mayor in Chilean history.
She was the daughter of Juan Luis Sanfuentes, President of Chile. 
Rossana Marisol Prado Villegas (b. Santiago, April 5, 1968), is a Chilean physician, psychiatrist and academic who became the first woman to hold the post of president of the University of Chile Student Federation (abbr.
FECH) which was founded in 1906; she was the first and only woman until Camila Vallejo assumed the post in August 2010, followed by Scarlett Mac-Ginty in November 2011. 
 Literature Notable Chilean women.
Chile has a rich literary history, being described as the "Land of the Poets."
In 1945, Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American, including men and women, to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Other notable female authors from Chile include Isabel Allende, Marta Brunet, María Luisa Bombal, Marcela Paz, and Mercedes Valdivieso.
Politics In 1999, Gladys Marín was one of the first women to be a presidential candidate in Chile.
The year before, she was the first person in Chile to charge Augusto Pinochet for crimes committed during his dictatorship.
Sara Larraín was the other woman, along with Marín, to be one of the first female presidential candidates in Chile.
From 2006 until 2010, Michelle Bachelet served as the first woman president of Chile.
In the 2006 election, Soledad Alvear, a Christian Democrat, ran for the presidency against Bachelet.
She is also the woman responsible for organizing and structuring SERNAM.
The daughter of late President Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende (politician), also second cousin to the author of the same name, is a prominent Chilean politician.
Senator Carolina Tohá is the president of the Party for Democracy.
Camila Vallejo has risen in national and international popularity as a leader of the Chilean student movement as well as a member of the Central Committee of Communist Youth of Chile.
Other Chile's first canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church is Teresa de los Andes, a Discalced Carmelite, canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
Javiera Carrera Verdugo was the first woman to have sewn a national flag of Chile.
Margot Duhalde was the first female war pilot from Chile, having flown for the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II.  
As a province, Los Andes is a second-level administrative division, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.
Edith Quiroz Ortiz, appointed by president Piñera on April 22, 2010, is the first woman to hold the office of Governor of Los Andes. 
María del Carmen Sotomayor Elzo (c.1780 – September 24, 1852) was First Lady of Chile.
She was born in Rancagua, the daughter of Francisco Sotomayor Serrano and of María de la Concepción de Elzo y Ureta, woman of Basque descent.
She married Fernando de Errázuriz y Martínez de Aldunate, served as provisional president of Chile in 1831, in Santiago on October 2, 1801, with whom he had 8 children.
She died in the same city on 1852.