Chile's Pinera takes nation on a right turn with runoff win
China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-20 07:42
Chilean president-elect Sebastian Pinera (center) rides his bike in Santiago on Monday. Reuters |
SANTIAGO: Billionaire Sebastian Pinera, who won a landmark victory in Sunday's presidential election, will become Chile's first strongly conservative leader since the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet two decades ago.
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