President of the Chamber of Deputies, Juan Bustos, dies

SANTIAGO.- According to an announcement made by the Vice President of the entity, Guillermo Ceroni, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, 72 year-old Juan Bustos, passed away this morning after being hospitalized for two weeks in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Clínica Alemana medical center.

Bustos was reportedly in the company of this wife and five of his seven children at the moment of his death.  His other two children, who currently reside in Europe, were not able to get back to Chile on time.

Juan Bustos, a member of the Socialist Party (PS) was hospitalized at the medical facility on July 24th of this year after complaining of acute respiratory complications, and had been listed in critical condition for the past few days due to multiple organ failure.

The respiratory problems added to the complications Bustos was already suffering from liver cancer, which had been detected following a routine medical exam in August of last year.