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Nov 24, 1927 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 24 Apr 2017 (aged 89)

Chilean publisher and journalist

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About Agustín Edwards Eastman

  • Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman (24 November 1927 – 24 April 2017) was a Chilean newspaper publisher, and one of the richest people in Chile.
  • He inherited his family's newspaper company El Mercurio SAP, which publishes Chile's leading national dailies El Mercurio and La Segunda among others, when his father died in 1956.
  • He has been described as a media baron, and is known for his right-wing views.
  • Throughout his time as publisher, he has used El Mercurio SAP's newspapers to influence public opinion in Chile, and he supported the 1973 coup d'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende.
  • According to the U.S.
  • Senate's Church Committee, he was one of the main Chilean participants in the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Mockingbird campaign to influence the media in Latin American countries.

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