Lucía Hiriart
María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez (10 December 1923 – 16 December 2021), also known as Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, was the wife of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. She was First Lady of Chile from 1973 to 1990. She was born in Antofagasta, Chile.
Lucía Hiriart | |
|---|---|
 Hiriart c. 1974 | |
| First Lady of Chile | |
| In role 17 December 1974 – 11 March 1990 | |
| President | Augusto Pinochet |
| Preceded by | Hortensia Bussi |
| Succeeded by | Leonor Oyarzún |
| Personal details | |
| Born | María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez 10 December 1923 Antofagasta, Chile |
| Died | 16 December 2021 (aged 98) Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Spouse(s) | Augusto Pinochet (m. 1943; died 2006) |
| Children | 5, including Inés Lucía Pinochet |
Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez, in September 2007 at a ceremony in Inés de Suárez Square (Providencia, a municipality in Santiago) in support of Chilean military personnel accused of human rights offenses.
On 30 December 2018, Hiriart was hospitalized after falling at her home in Santiago de Chile. She fractured her arm and multiple ribs.[1]
Hiriart died in Santiago de Chile on 16 December 2021 from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by heart disease, six days after her 98th birthday.[2]
References
- ↑ "Lucía Hiriart sufrió accidente casero y fue internada en el Hospital Militar" (in Spanish). Cooperativa. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Murió a los 99 años Lucía Hiriart, viuda del dictador Augusto Pinochet (in Spanish)
Other websites
- Analysis of her arrest Archived 2020-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)