Lucía Hiriart, widow of dictator Augusto Pinochet, dies on the closing day of the electoral campaign in Chile

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Lucía Hiriart, widow of the dictator

, died this Thursday in Chile at the age of 99, adding an unexpected element to the day of the closing of the campaign for the elections that this Sunday will define the country's new president.

The news impacted a Chile that for more than two years has lived in high political tension, and that the new tenant of the Palacio de La Moneda must decide between the hard left of

and the hard right of

.

"It is a preamble to the death of Pinochetism this Sunday,"

noted various comments on social networks, alluding to Kast's sympathies for various policies of the dictator.

One of the presidential candidate's brothers was a minister and president of the Central Bank during a stretch of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990).

A few minutes after the news was known,

, one of the axes of the demonstrations that have shaken the country since the social outbreak of October 2019.

The death of Hiriart, who was a highly visible first lady in the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, was glossed over on the website of 'El Mercurio', the country's main newspaper, with the following title: "At 99, Lucía dies Hiriartt, widow of the general and former ruler Augusto Pinochet ".

While it is expected that Hiriart's death will be cause for celebration by those attending Boric's campaign closing tonight, there is expectation to know what farewell Kast will dedicate to a woman who, after her husband died,

Hiriart, a mother of five children, was a very present figure in Chilean society even years after the death of her husband.

Until 2016 she presided over "CEMA Chile", a foundation that claimed to dedicate itself to

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