in Santiago in 1986. He did not live to see the end of the junta and the return of Chile to democracy. His death had some influence in the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet by Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front as it made Pinochet travel back to Santiago prematurely changing thus the schedule of the attack. His nephew Arturo Alessandri Besa stood as presidential candidate for the right-wing Alianza in 1993, losing to the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the Concertación center-left coalition. See also Alessandri family References 1896 births 1986 deaths Politicians from Santiago Jorge Alessandri Chilean people of Italian descent Independent politicians in Chile Presidents of Chile Chilean Ministers of Finance Deputies of the XXXV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Members of the Senate of Chile Candidates for President of Chile Chilean anti-communists 20th-century Chilean engineers Children of presidents of Chile Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera alumni University of Chile alumni