Sebastian Pinera: Former president of Chile dies in helicopter crash
Source: BBC
Sebastián Piñera: Former president of Chile dies in helicopter crash
6 February 2024
By Ione Wells
South America Correspondent
The former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country.
His office confirmed the death of the 74-year-old and said details of his funeral would be announced in due course.
Chile's interior minister said four people had been involved in a helicopter crash on Tuesday.
While three people survived, the former president was killed. The army have recovered his body.
Mr Piñera was a conservative politician who led Chile from 2010 to 2014, and again from 2018 until last year. He was also a billionaire businessman, one of the richest men in Chile.
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He was Chile's President during the international attention paid to the crisis of the 33 coal miners who were trapped far underground so long!
He did make a real effort to be there conscientiously, took an active part.
On the sinister side, he had a brother, José Piñera, who was close to former President Richard Nixon-backed and heavily supported, sadistic, murderous, larcenous fascist General Pinochet! From his Wikipedia:
José Piñera Echenique (born October 6, 1948) is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.[1] He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems"[2] as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper" (by the Wall Street Journal).[3] He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the advisory board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pi%C3%B1era
Never guessed people like Piñera ever had accidents! Who knew?
This event has to be very much covered and discussed by millions in the Americas now. Thank you, very much.