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Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash. He was 74

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By PATRICIA LUNA
Associated Press

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile, who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died in a helicopter crash. He was 74. Leading the South American nation two times, from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022, the commercial engineer and businessman placed Chile among the five countries with the top rates of vaccination in the coronavirus pandemic. His legacy is marred by violent police repression in October 2019 against protesters who were demonstrating against the country’s education, health and pension systems dating to the country’s 1973-1990 military dictatorship.

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