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the rightist Sebastian Pinera He is a few hours away from finishing his second non-consecutive term in Chile, four years of management that crown with the greatest citizen disapproval since the return to democracy and that have been marked by the riots of 2019 and the pandemic.
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1949 in a middle class family, Pinera He is the third of five children of Magdalena Echeñique and José Piñera, a diplomat and engineer who participated in the founding of the centrist Christian Democracy (DC) party.
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Doctor in Economics from Harvard University (United States) and one of the greatest fortunes of the South American country, Pinera in 1973 he married Cecilia Morel, with whom he has four children.
He was a militant and senator for the right-wing National Renovation (RN) party and in his youth he voted against the continuity of dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1989 plebiscite and condemned human rights violations, despite the fact that his brother was a minister of the regime and he devised the current and criticized private pension system.
HISTORICAL DISAPPROVAL
According to various local consultants, the disapproval of the current administration has progressively increased over the months, especially since the wave of protest, and is currently around 70%.
Pinerawho in 2010 became the first right-winger to arrive at La Moneda after 20 years of center-left governments, began his second presidential term with a favorable wind: the rise in the price of copper prior to his inauguration improved the prospects for the economy and its “overwhelming” victory over the candidate Alejandro Guillier gave him the strength to promote “counter reforms”, Rodrigo Espinoza, from the Diego Portales University, told Efe.
However, an unprecedented social outbreak in democracy and the covid-19 pandemic, which has left more than 43,500 dead, put the Executive in check and made it lose control of the legislative agenda.
“Beyond our errors or shortcomings, which there were, the Government’s action found on too many occasions an implacable obstruction of a part of the opposition and also, many times, criticism that seemed unfair to us because they did not consider the difficulties of the moment”assured Pinera Wednesday on his latest national network.
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The handling of the protests by the 72-year-old billionaire businessman was the focus of harsh criticism from the opposition, especially the extensive deployment of security forces accused of violating human rights by international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Dozens of deaths, hundreds of demonstrators with eye trauma as a result of riot shotgun fire and thousands of injuries were the balance of full days of mobilization.
“We are at war against a powerful enemy”he assured on October 21, 2019, in statements that went viral just three days after the start of the protests.
SUCCESSFUL VACCINATION
The protests subsided due to the pandemic, which forced the government to decree several confinements and caused a 5.8% collapse of the economy in 2020, the largest in four decades.
However, if something is recognized Pinerawho on Friday will transfer power to the progressive Gabriel Boric, is to have led one of the most successful vaccination processes in the world, with 90% of the 19 million inhabitants of the country receiving at least three doses.
Another of the hard moments that the president had to face was the publication of the Pandora Papers, a worldwide journalistic investigation that revealed that he sold his participation in a controversial mining project to a businessman friend of the family in an operation of 152 million dollars. carried out in part in a Caribbean tax haven.
The president, one of the largest fortunes in Chile and who has increased his wealth during the pandemic, according to Forbes, defends that he disassociated himself from his businesses through blind trusts in 2009 and that what was revealed was already dismissed in 2017, although the The Public Ministry opened a new investigation and the Parliament initiated a political trial against him that ultimately failed.
“It was decreed that there was no irregularity and my total innocence was also established”insisted Pinera after publication in October 2021.
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Source: Elcomercio
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