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Biography
Patricio Aylwin Azócar was a Chilean politician, lawyer, author, professor and former senator who was the 30th president of Chile from 1990 to 1994. He was the first president to be elected after the end of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship following the 1988 Chilean presidential referendum, marking the Chilean transition to democracy in 1990. He was from the Christian Democratic Party.
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Awards & recognition
- J. William Fulbright Prize · 1998
- honorary doctor of Georgetown University · 1995
- honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne · 1994
- Grand Star of the Decoration — Services to the Republic of Austria · 1993
- Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty · 1992
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- Collar of the Order of Charles III · 1991
- Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic · 1991
- Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic · 1990
- Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit · 1990
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Grand Cross of the Order Bernardo O'Higgins
- honorary doctor of the University of Santiago, Chile
- honorary doctor of Waseda University
- honorary doctorate
- honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame
- honorary doctorate from the University of Parma
- North–South Prize
- Order of Jamaica
- Order of Merit
