Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Recent News in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile — Agustín Edwards died on Monday on his farm in Graneros, about 46 miles south of Santiago, the capital of Chile. He was 89. He was a Chilean media magnate who published El Mercurio, the country’s most influential conservative publication and the world's oldest Spanish language newspaper.

His grandfather, Agustin Edwards MacClure, who founded the newspaper in 1900, was the brother-in-law to Guillermo Errazuriz Vergara (Blanca De Saulles's brother).

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