Jorge Alessandri - Final Years

Final Years

After this, Jorge Alessandri once more withdrew into private life, now for the last time, living rather peacefully in his apartment in the center of Santiago. He continued to be chairman of the board of a paper factory until his death in Santiago in 1986. He did not survive to see end of the junta and the return of Chile to democracy.

His nephew Arturo Alessandri Besa stood as Presidential candidate for the right-wing Alianza in 1993, losing to the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the ConcertaciĆ³n center-left coalition.

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