Patricio Aylwin, 97, the former president who led Chile’s transition to democracy from dictatorship in 1990, has died. He was 97. He died Tuesday at his home in Santiago, his son Miguel Aylwin said.

we owe a lot to don Patricio,” Bachelet said. The former president of Chile, Patricio Aylwin, has died aged 97 of natural causes, his family reported. Aylwin, a centre-right Christian Democrat ...

Patricio Aylwin, right, with Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Santiago, Chile, in 1993. Cris Bouroncle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Thumbnail: Vicente Vergara/Agence France-Presse — Getty ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, April 20 (UPI) --Patricio Aylwin, Chile's first president after 17 years of military rule under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, died on Tuesday from natural causes at the age of 97.

I've spent my whole life looking for my father... now I know I'll never find him. When Chile returned to democracy in 1990, then President Patricio Aylwin set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Between September 11, 1973, and March 1990, when Pinochet finally handed over power to the elected government of President Patricio Aylwin, 2,603 people were executed, died under torture ...

Chile voted for a civilian government in 1989, and the following year Patricio Aylwin became the country's first president after democracy was restored. Official estimates say more than 3,000 ...

Former president Patricio Aylwin, who initiated the transition to democracy, said the 300-square- kilometer (115-square-mile) isolated settlement was a "state within the state." In 1991 ...