Pinera biography
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Sebastián Piñera
Sebastián Piñera | |
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| In office March 11, 2018 – March 11, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Michelle Bachelet |
| Succeeded by | Gabriel Boric |
| In office March 11, 2010 – March 11, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Michelle Bachelet |
| Succeeded by | Michelle Bachelet |
| In office May 26, 2001 – March 10, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Alberto Cardemil |
| Succeeded by | Sergio Díez |
| In office March 11, 1990 – March 11, 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Bombal |
| Born | Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (1949-12-01)December 1, 1949 Santiago, Chile |
| Died | February 6, 2024(2024-02-06) (aged 74) Ranco Lake, Chile |
| Political party | National Renewal(1989–present, membership suspended while president) |
| Other political affiliations | Coalition for Change(2009–2013) Chile Vamos(2015–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Cecilia Morel(1973–2024) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Harv • Sebastian Piñera EcheniqueSebastian Piñera served as the 34th and 36th President of Chile. His first term was from 2010 – 2014 and his second from 2018 – 2022. Born in Santiago, Chile on December 1, 1949. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as a Commercial Engineer with a major in Economics, and he also has a Master and Doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Harvard. In the early 1980s he created Bancard, granting Chilean people access to this new payment and credit system. He became a major shareholder in companies such as Lanchile, Chilevisión and Blanco y Negro (sports club), among others. He has been a founding member of Fundación Cultura y Sociedad, Fundación Mujer Emprende, and Fundación Avanza Chile. President Piñera began his political career in 1988, during the Pinochet referendum. He voted against it, then joined the campaign team of the right-wing candidate. He was elected senator in 1990, and kept his seat until • Biography1912 - 1979Born in Cárdenas, Cuba on August 4, 1912, as a boy Virgilio Piñera’s primary pastime was reading. By his early teens he began to write. His first published poem was El Grito Mudo (The Mute Scream) in 1936. He wrote his first play Clamor enstaka el Penal (Noise in the Penitentiary) the following year. Piñera continued writing poems, essays, short stories, and primarily plays. Piñera founded the magazine Poeta and along with José Lezama Lima and José Rodriguez Feo he co-founded Orígenes. His modernist tragicomedy Electra Garrigó (1948) blasted the values of Cuba’s upper class and mocked high panna culture. Many were offended and walked out of the performance. The play is often cited as the birth of Cuban Modernism. bygd then the bohemian and overtly gay Piñera was spending larger amounts of time in Buenos Aires. There he came to know Jorge Luis Borges and other revolutionary writers who further influenced his work. Piñera returned to Cuba in 1958, in t |