Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmiɣel ˈxwan seβahˈtjan piˈɲeɾa eʧeˈnike] (born December 1, 1949) is a Chilean economist, investor and politician. He is a member of the center-right National Renewal (RN) party, a constituent of the Alliance for Chile coalition, and a former Senator. In 2005, he ran in the Chilean presidential election, losing to Michelle Bachelet in a runoff. He is currently running again for presid...
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Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmiɣel ˈxwan seβahˈtjan piˈɲeɾa eʧeˈnike] (born December 1, 1949) is a Chilean economist, investor and politician. He is a member of the center-right National Renewal (RN) party, a constituent of the Alliance for Chile coalition, and a former Senator. In 2005, he ran in the Chilean presidential election, losing to Michelle Bachelet in a runoff. He is currently running again for president, representing Alliance for Chile in the election that will take place in December 2009.
Piñera was born in Santiago, Chile to Magdalena Echenique Rozas and José Piñera Carvallo, an engineer who worked for CORFO and was Chile's ambassador to Belgium and to the United Nations. He is the third man of a family of four brothers and two sisters: Guadalupe, José Piñera (a former Minister of Labour under Augusto Pinochet), Pablo, Sebastián, Miguel (a singer) and Magdalena. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Chile's Catholic...
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