Agustín Edwards Eastman

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'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende. According to the U.S. Senate's Church Committee, he was one of the main Chilean participants in the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Mockingbird campaign to influence the media in Latin American countries.

He was born in Paris, France in 1927, the son of Agustín Edwards Budge, grandson Agustin Edwards Mac-Clure of the Edwards family and Mary Elizabeth Eastman Beeche, and grandson of Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure. Edwards was educated at Heatherdown School, London and graduated from The Grange School in Santiago. He studied international relations at Princeton University, graduating in 1949 cum laude, and then studied law at the University of Chile.

Edwards worked as a reporter for the International Herald Tribune in Paris and for The Times in London, after which he returned to Chile to join El Mercurio SAP, where he worked in the international section before becoming an assistant editor. Soon after, Edwards, also became involved in several of the family's company, including one of the oldest banks in Chile, Banco A. Edwards , founded in 1867 by his great-great grandfather Agustin Edwards Ossandon, the wealthiest man in Chile and founder of dozens of successful businesses.

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