Sebastián Piñera, the businessman twice president who moderated the Chilean center-right, dies. The former president was spending his summer vacation at his lake house.
The helicopter that plunged into the waters was his, and he used to pilot it himself. The shocking news came in days when Ricardo Lagos, president between 2000 and 2006, announced his retirement from public life at the age of 85, and in the midst of the devastating fires. Various governments in the region, including neighboring Argentina, presented their condolences.