Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Sergio Onofre Jarpa | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 10 August 1983 – 12 February 1985 | |
| President | Augusto Pinochet |
| Preceded by | Enrique Montero Marx |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo García Rodríguez |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 15 May 1973 – 21 September 1973 | |
| Constituency | LIII |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1994 | |
| Constituency | LV |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 March 1921 |
| Spouse | Silvia Moreno Andwandter (1950s-1978; her death) |
| Domestic partner | Mina Huerta Dunsmore (1980s-present) |
| Relations | Onofre Jarpa (ancestor) |
| Children | Sergio Jr., Jorge, Francisco, Isabel |
| Parent(s) | Francisco Javier Jarpa Santa Cruz (father) Raquel Reyes Corona (mother) |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation | Diplomat, farmer |
| Awards | Premio al Mérito Geopolítico (1991) |
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean right-wing politician who served as one of the founders of the National Renewal (Chile) Party.
Biography
Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture at the
left-wing government and, from 1971, editor of the anti-socialist journal Tribuna.[1]
Elected to the
Minister of the Interior in 1983 with special orders to open dialogue with the opposition, which had organised under the name Democratic Alliance. This policy of appeasement was quickly abandoned by Pinochet however.[2] He held the post until 1985.[1] He formed his own political movement, the National Labour Front (Frente Nacional del Trabajo), in 1985 and this group was one of the three that formed National Renewal two years later.[1] He returned to the Senate as a representative of this new party in 1990.[1]
Alongside his political career Jarpa was a noted author on socio-political topics and he was awarded the Premio al Mérito Geopolítico by the Chilean Institute of Geopolitics in 1991.[1]
He died from COVID-19 on 19 April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.[3]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h "Library of the Chilean National Congress Biography". Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ Thomas C. Wright & Rody Zunate Oniga, "Chilean Political Exile", Latin American Perspectives, 2007 34: 44
- ^ "Entrega de certificados confirman que Sergio Onofre Jarpa murió producto del Covid-19". ADN Radio (in Spanish). 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
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