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
Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor's office reported on Wednesday. Chile's Legal Medical Service, the state coroner's office, in the southern city of Valdivia conducted an autopsy overnight on Pinera, who died at the age of 74, before his remains were sent to receive state honors in the Chilean capital on Wednesday. "As the prosecutor's office, we are now in a position to be able to inform the community that the medical-legal cause of the death of former President Sebastian Pinera is asphyxiation due to submersion," Tatiana Esquivel, the local prosecutor where the accident happened, told reporters.
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Santiago, Feb 6 (EFE).- The Government of Chile decreed three days of national mourning in honor of former President Sebastián Piñera, who died on Tuesday in the Los Ríos region when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into the waters of Lake Ranco, 780 kilometers (484 miles) south of Santiago. The Directorate General of Civil …
SANTIAGO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) Sebastian Pinera, who was Chile's president in 2010-2014 and 2018-2022, died on Tuesday when his private helicopter crashed on the shores of Lake Ranco, in southern Chile, according to his office.