Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa (5 November 1926 – 18 August 2005) was a

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an businessman of Croatian and Bolivian origin. He founded the Luksic Group, becoming the richest person in

, the fourth in

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, and the 132nd in the world, with a

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in 2005 of according to ''

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'' magazine. The Luksic Group has interests in the

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the econom ...

financial Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...

, industrial, and

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sectors. Major holdings include, or have included,

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, Compañia de Cervecerias Unidas (CCU), and

Antofagasta Plc Antofagasta plc is a Chilean multinational. It is one of the most important conglomerates of Chile with equity participation in ''Antofagasta Minerals'', the railroad from Antofagasta to Bolivia, Twin Metals in Minnesota and other exploration ...

, a UK-listed

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mining company. In Croatia, he was involved in the tourist industry. In September 2002, the Chilean newspaper ''

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'' published an interview with Andrónico Luksic titled "Don Andrónico cuenta su historia" (''Don Andrónico shares his story''), in which he explains how, after a life of hard work, he had decided to retire and "dedicate himself to what he liked the most: his family, his beloved Croatia and social assistance".

Family

Luksic was born in

Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. After the Spanish American wars ...

, to a

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n mother, Elena Abaroa Córdova (grandchild of Bolivian

War of the Pacific The War of the Pacific ( es, link=no, Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War ( es, link=no, Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought ...

hero

Eduardo Abaroa Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo (13 October 1838 – 23 March 1879) was Bolivia's foremost hero of the War of the Pacific (1879–1883), which pitted Chile against Bolivia and Peru. He was one of the leaders of the civilian resistance to the Chilean ...

), and a

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n immigrant father, Polikarp Lukšić Ljubetić, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of

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in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry. Luksic married Ena del Carmen Craig Monett in 1953 and they had two sons: Andrónico (born 16 April 1954) and Guillermo (14 January 1956 – 2013) Luksic was widowed when Ena died in 1959. He married Iris Fontbona González in 1961, when she was 18 years old. They had two daughters: Paola (born 1961/1962) and Gabriela (born 1962/1963), and one son: Jean-Paul Luksic Fontbona (born 31 May 1964).)

Death

Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa died of cancer on 18 August 2005, aged 78, in Santiago de Chile. As of 2011, his widow Iris Fontbona and their family had a net worth of . As of October 2012 the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lists Iris Fontbona, who lives in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

as the 33rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $19.7 billion. The Forbes 2016 lists Iris Fontbona Chile's richest person with a $13.8 billion mining assets fortune (or a $15.5 billion total fortune she shares with the rest of her immediate family), making her the fourth-richest in the region. Her net worth is equivalent to 6% of Chile's GDP. As of November 2022 Forbes Billionaire List, the Luksic family had a net worth of $22.8 billion and are considered the #83 richest family in the world.

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