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		</div><p>Sebastian Pinera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died on Tuesday in a helicopter accident, aged 74.</p>
<p>Chilean interior minister Carolina Toha confirmed the death of the former president. No further details were immediately released about the cause of the accident.</p>
<p>Serving as president from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022, he led the South American nation during devastating natural disasters, including the fallout of an earthquake and a tsunami.</p>
<p>He also governed during the coronavirus pandemic and placed Chile among the top five countries for vaccination rates for the illness.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<figure id="attachment_181435" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-181435" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/0354FC29-85A3-462A-82B5-8BF402649A4B-300x200.webp" alt="" width="300" height="200" class="size-medium wp-image-181435" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-181435" class="wp-caption-text">Sebastian Pinera served twice as Chile’s president</figcaption></figure>
<p>International organisations cited mass violations of human rights in the crackdown.</p>
<p>The social unrest ultimately led to two attempts to update the constitution inherited from the military government, but both have failed.</p>
<p>Mr Pinera was the owner of the fifth-largest fortune in Chile, estimated at some three billion dollars (£2.4 billion). He worked as an academic in several universities for almost 20 years and as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.</p>
<p>As a businessman in the 1970s through the 1990s, he worked in a variety of industries, including property. He held shares in major airlines, telecommunication, real estate and electricity companies.</p>
<p>He also created one of the largest credit card companies in the country. In 2009, he handed over the management of his businesses to others.</p>
<p>He entered politics representing the centre-right, which was the civilian support of the military regime. However, when he served as an independent senator, he voted against the extension of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).</p>
<p>He ran three times for president of Chile. In 2006, he lost to socialist Michelle Bachelet; then in 2010 he defeated former President Eduardo Frei and was elected in 2010. Four years later, in 2018, he won a second four-year term after defeating a leftist independent.</p>
<p>Twelve days before the beginning of his first term, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami claimed the lives of 525 people and devastated the infrastructure of central-southern Chile.</p>
<p>Mr Pinera’s government agenda was postponed in order to take on emergency reconstruction. In 2010, he also led the unprecedented rescue of 33 miners trapped for 69 days at the bottom of a mine, which captured the world’s attention.</p>
<p>He closed his administration having created an estimated a million jobs.</p>
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