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Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (Santiago, 1 de diciembre de 1949-Ilihue, Lago Ranco, 6 de febrero de 2024) [3] [4] [5] [1] fue un político, ingeniero comercial y empresario chileno. Fue presidente de la República de Chile en dos períodos no consecutivos ( 2010-2014 y 2018-2022 ), [ 6 ] el primer presidente pro tempore de CELAC ...
Website. Official website. Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique [b] ( Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈxwan seβasˈtjam piˈɲeɾa etʃeˈnike] ⓘ; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.
- Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique, 1 December 1949 (age 73), Santiago, Chile
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6 de feb. de 2024 · Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique nació el 1 de diciembre de 1949 en Santiago. De profesión ingeniero comercial, con mención en Economía de la UC, tuvo 4 hijos con Cecilia Morel. También concretó un Máster y un Doctorado en Economía en la Universidad de Harvard, donde además fue profesor ayudante.
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- First presidential term
- Second presidential term
Sebastián Piñera (born December 1, 1949, Santiago, Chile—died February 6, 2024, Los Ríos region, southern Chile) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served two terms as president of Chile (2010–14; 2018–22). He was the first conservative to lead the country since the end of the dictatorial rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1990.
When Piñera was a baby, his family moved to the United States, where his father, a civil servant, spent four years working for the Chilean Economic Development Agency (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción; CORFO). The family returned to Chile in the mid-1950s, then left again in 1965, when Piñera’s father was appointed Chile’s ambassador to Belgium. Piñera studied at the Catholic University of Chile, receiving a degree in commercial engineering in 1971. With the aid of a Fulbright scholarship, he returned to the United States to continue his studies, receiving a master’s degree and a Ph.D. (1976) in economics from Harvard University. He served on the economics faculty of the Catholic University of Chile throughout the 1970s and ’80s. He also taught at the University of Chile and the Valparaíso Business School (now Adolfo Ibáñez University).
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Piñera worked in the consulting and banking sectors prior to his founding of the hugely successful Bancard in the late 1970s. The company, which introduced credit cards to Chile, made him a billionaire. He also held large stakes in other companies, including LAN Chile, the country’s national airline; a private hospital; and the Colo Colo football (soccer) team. Among Piñera’s other endeavours was the creation in 1993 of the Fundación Futuro, a nonprofit organization concerned with water preservation and renewable energy that also established Tantauco Park, an ecological park on the Chilean island of Chiloé.
On February 27, 2010, less than two weeks before Piñera was set to take office, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile (see Chile earthquake of 2010). While Bachelet oversaw initial relief efforts, Piñera toured disaster sites and began speaking on the record as the Chilean leader. Piñera’s inauguration ceremony, on March 11, was punctuated by two...
Piñera was back on the ballot for the 2017 presidential election. In response to a series of political scandals and the country’s stagnating economy, Chilean voters appeared ready for a change of leadership, and it was thought that front-runner Piñera might win a majority in the first round of voting to preclude a runoff. In the event, he took more than 36 percent of the vote to finish first in an eight-candidate field. Two leftist candidates—Alejandro Guillier, a onetime television news anchor representing Bachelet’s New Majority (Nueva Mayoría) coalition, and Beatriz Sánchez, of the grassroots Broad Front (Frente Amplio) coalition—collectively won more than two-fifths of the vote. Guillier, who tallied some 23 percent of the vote (Sánchez claimed about 20 percent), advanced to the second-round contest with Piñera. On December 17, 2017, Piñera was elected to a second term as president by taking some 54 percent of the vote.
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At the end of 2018, opinion polling indicated that 47 percent of those surveyed approved of Piñera’s handling of the presidency. Within a year that figure would nosedive to 12 percent, the lowest approval rating for a Chilean president since the restoration of democracy in the country. This rapid decline reflected the widespread disenchantment with Piñera’s response to the social upheaval that roiled Chilean society beginning in October 2019, when demonstrators took to the streets to protest a rate hike for the Santiago subway system. In short order those protests intensified as their focus expanded to include the broader issue of Chile’s wide gap in economic inequality and demands for higher wages, as well as reform of the education, health care, and pension systems, along with a new constitution. As they spread, the protests grew violent and frequently met with a brutal police response. By the end of November, more than 20 protesters had been killed and more than 2,000 individuals wounded in the demonstrations.
Some Chileans called on Piñera to dispatch the military to confront the protesters; other demanded his resignation. However, before November ended, the president had made it known that he was open to the possibility of a new constitution. A referendum was scheduled for April 2020 that would allow Chileans to decide whether to replace the constitution and to determine the nature of the body that would draft its replacement. The month before that referendum was scheduled to take place, the country found itself in the grip of the global coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (the first cases of which had been reported in China in December 2019). The outbreak of the virus in Chile initially was largely contained, but by June some 200,000 Chileans had contracted COVID-19, the potentially deadly disease caused by the virus, as the country developed one of the world’s highest per capita rates of the disease’s spread.
Already disrupted by the late 2019 protests and further slowed by the lockdown measures imposed to stem the spread of the virus, the economy tumbled into recession, with GDP declining by 6 percent in 2020. Piñera’s administration sought to mitigate these economic effects through significant financial relief efforts. It also staged one of the world’s most aggressive and successful vaccination programs. By September 2021 nearly 75 percent of Chileans had been fully vaccinated. The rescheduled constitutional referendum was held in October 2020. Those voting overwhelmingly endorsed creation of a new constitution, a draft of which was to be readied by July 2022 for a public vote. In the December 2021 presidential runoff election, Chileans selected leftist Gabriel Boric, a former student organizer, to succeed Piñera.
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6 de feb. de 2024 · Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique nació el 1 de diciembre de 1949 en Santiago. De profesión ingeniero comercial, con mención en Economía de la UC, tuvo 4 hijos con Cecilia Morel. También concretó un Máster y un Doctorado en Economía en la Universidad de Harvard, donde además fue profesor ayudante.
Presidente de la República desde el 11 de marzo de 2010 al 11 de marzo de 2014, y entre el 11 de marzo de 2018 al 11 de marzo de 2022. Senador por la 8ª Circunscripción Santiago Oriente, periodo 1990-1998. Reseña biográfica. Familia y Juventud. Nació el 1 de diciembre de 1949, en Santiago.
6 de feb. de 2024 · Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique, nacido en Santiago de Chile el 1 de diciembre de 1949, ocupó la presidencia de la República de Chile en dos ocasiones, siendo jefe de Estado desde...
