Agustín Edwards Eastman
Chilean newspaper publisher (1927-2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman (24 November 1927 – 24 April 2017)[1] 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.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Edwards and the second or maternal family name is Eastman.