Margot Honecker (R), widow of the former head of East Germany Erich Honecker, is seen during an event of the communist party at Santiago, Chile, March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Aliosha Marquez
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Margot Honecker, the widow of former East German leader Erich Honecker and the most powerful woman in the Communist state until its collapse in 1989, died on Friday in Santiago, Chile, at the age of 89.
She had been living as a recluse in Chile for more than two decades. Honecker had been suffering from cancer, TVN television station said.
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