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Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
About Víctor Pey
- Víctor Pey Casado (31 August 1915 – 5 October 2018) was a Spanish-born Chilean engineer, professor, and businessman.
- He was born in Madrid, the son of writer and priest Segismundo Pey Ordeix, and Manuela Casado, from Valladolid.
- At the age of two, he moved with his family to Barcelona.
- During the Spanish Civil War, he fought on the Republican side and was a member to the Durruti Column.
- He formed part of the Spanish government in exile as a technical advisor to the War Industries Commission of Catalonia.
- after being captured in France.
- He crossed the Pyrenees into France on 25 January 1939 and was captured and sent to a prison camp at Perpignan.
- In September 1939, Pablo Neruda arranged that Pey and his family board the SS Winnipeg for Chile.After arriving in Santiago, he found work as a surveyor, together with the engineer José Saitúa, who was in charge of the construction of an aqueduct between Laguna Negra and Santiago.
- Pey became a naturalized Chilean citizen and worked with his brother Raúl in an engineering company.
- Pey met Salvador Allende during a party hosted by Aníbal Jara, editor of La Hora newspaper.
- When Allende became President in 1970, Pey became an advisor to the Popular Unity government and was one of his closest associates.
- He purchased the newspaper El Clarín during Allende's presidency, which became the largest newspaper in Chile.
- After the Pinochet dictatorship was imposed in 1973, El Clarín was shut down.
- Pey was persecuted by the military junta and went into exile, not returning until the 1990s.In 1997, Pey initiated a lawsuit against the Chilean government in the World Bank Tribunal for the expropriation of his newspaper.
- Successive Chilean administrations held the position of not paying Pey.
- After a 19-year legal battle, the case was dismissed without Pey receiving any damages.Pey identified as an agnostic.
- He was named honorary rector of the University of Chile in 2015, coinciding with his centenary.
- He died of natural causes on 5 October 2018, aged 103.
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