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Judi Lynn

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1. Oh, my god! Astounding! Never, ever expected this to happen.
Wed Feb 7, 2024, 08:02 AM
Feb 2024

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.

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