Ricardo Lagos announces his retirement from public life at the age of 85. The first socialist to reach La Moneda after Salvador Allende governed between 2000 and 2006 under the motto of “growing with equality” “I will contribute to Chile from a more intimate space, always attentive to the challenges that Chile and the world have ahead of them,” said Lagos.

He was one of the leaders of the opposition to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and pushed the boundaries of what the Chilean left believed possible.