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Ricardo Lagos Escobar - Current President


Born in 1938, Ricardo Lagos served in the government of Salvador Allende, the man that Pinochet deposed.

In the 1980s he headed a coalition of parties opposed to Pinochet and in 1986 he was arrested and detained without charge following an assassination attempt on Pinochet. In 1987 he formed the Party for Democracy, which is now part of the ruling alliance.

Following Chile's return to democracy, Lagos served first as education minister in the government of Patricio Aylwin and then as public works minister in the government of President Eduardo Frei from 1994 to 1998. He is widely regarded as a moderate leftist.

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