Former President Sebastian Piñera Dies in helicopter crash

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Former President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, reportedly drowned after the helicopter in which he was traveling plunged into a lake. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 The former president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, reportedly drowned after the helicopter

00:05 in which he was travelling plunged into the lake.

00:08 There were three survivors of the accident, the identities of the victims have not yet

00:12 been officially confirmed.

00:14 The accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the rural sector of Iliue, in the town

00:19 of Lago Ranco, in the region of Los Rios, when a private helicopter with former president

00:24 Piñera on board plunged into the middle of the water body with at least four occupants.

00:30 It is reported that three of the occupants were able to get out of the aircraft.

00:34 However, a fourth accompanist was left inside because he could not unlock his seatbelt.

00:41 According to initial reports, the helicopter took off in the middle of a rainy day and

00:46 low visibility that affects the area and after a few minutes of flight it lost stability

00:51 and went down.

00:52 Now let's review a profile of the former president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera.

01:03 Sebastián Piñera es un Ique, he was a Chilean politician, businessman and investor.

01:08 He was president of the Republic of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.

01:17 Piñera studied commercial engineering with a major in economics at the Pontificia Universidad

01:22 Católica de Chile in the financial sphere.

01:25 He was the owner of one of the largest fortunes in his country, with an estimated capital

01:31 of $2.7 billion in 2017, according to Forbes magazine, thus becoming one of the 10 largest

01:38 millionaires of Chilean nationality that exist at present.

01:42 His administration at the helm of the South American country are remembered as some of

01:47 the worst in the country's history, with a history of human rights violations after

01:51 the strong repression of the demonstrations against the social outburst of 2019, in addition

01:58 to the attacks against indigenous peoples, the deficit in access to housing, in addition

02:03 to the implementation of neoliberal measures that greatly increased the cost of living

02:09 in the country.

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