Agustin Edwards Esq

Agustin Edwards Esq
First name:Agustin
Surname:Edwards
Post-nominals:Esq
Year elected:1967
Elected as:A Foreign Member. He transferred to Member on 1 June 2014 when all Foreign Members became Members
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The Edwards family of Chile is of Welsh origin. They became financially and politically influential during the 19th century. They have played and still play a significant role in Chilean politics, especially as owners of its most influential newspaper chain, El Mercurio SAP.

Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman (born 24 November 1927) is 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'etat to oust President Salvador Allende. According to the US Senate's Church Committee, he was one of the main Chilean participants in the CIA's Operation Mockingbird campaign to influence the media in Latin American countries.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Gloriana Ketch .... 1993  
Yagan   1967 1970  
Antarctica TSMY 1997 ....  
Anakena Ketch 1997 ....  

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