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Twice president, he broke the hegemony of the Chilean left in 2010, faced a social uprising, and at 74 had not abandoned the possibility of running for office again

Sebastián Piñera, the businessman twice president who moderated the Chilean center-right, dies. The former president was spending his summer vacation at his lake house. The helicopter that plunged into the waters was his, and he used to pilot it himself. The shocking news came in days when Ricardo Lagos, president between 2000 and 2006, announced his retirement from public life at the age of 85, and in the midst of the devastating fires. Various governments in the region, including neighboring...

Chilean ex-president Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms and was also a billionaire businessman, has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.

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According to local media, the right-wing ex-president crashed while piloting an aircraft in the south of the country

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