Chile Businesses Await Return of Billionaire With Midas Touch

  • Chileans go to the polls in presidential elections on Nov. 19
  • Former President Sebastian Pinera is ahead in opinion surveys
Sebastian Pinera.Photographer: Andrew Harrer
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Chile’s business community is holding its breath.

Everything points to a victory for their favored candidate, billionaire Sebastian Pinera, in two rounds of voting for the presidency starting Nov. 19, and yet they can’t bring themselves to invest just yet.