Carmen Weber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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wife of Chilean president Ricardo Lagos
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Place of Birth: Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile
About Carmen Weber
- Georgina del Carmen Weber Aliaga (21 February 1941 in Valdivia – August 8, 2007 in Concón) was the first wife of Chilean ex-president Ricardo Lagos and mother of politician Ricardo Lagos Weber. Carmen Weber met and married Ricardo Lagos in 1961, with whom he had two children: Ricardo and Ximena.
- After Lagos obtained his Ph.D.
- in the U.S., he annulled this marriage in 1969 (divorce was not legal in Chile until 2004.) He also obtained custody of his two children.
- The cause of the rupture was her severe bipolar disorder. She became famous during the run-up to the 1988 national plebiscite when she supported General Augusto Pinochet, and spoke negatively of her former husband during an interview that was aired on September 30 of that year.
- That interview was considered the single most damaging moment against the Pinochet option as Chileans perceived her as vindictive and bitter, and sympathy went to the husband rather than her.As a consequence of an accidental fire at her home on May 18, 2007, she suffered deep respiratory damage which eventually resulted in her serious injury.
- She died at her home in the city of Concón.
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