Oscar Alex Enrique Schnake Vergara (11 June 1899 – 24 April 1976) was a Chilean politician and physician. He was a founder member of the

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and close to President

Pedro Aguirre Cerda Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda (; February 6, 1879 – November 25, 1941) was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 22nd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941. A member of the Radical Party since 1906, ...

(1938–1941). He has been described as one of the notorious leaders of the Chilean socialdemocracy. His wife, Gabriela Contreras de Schnake, was mayor of

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in early 1940s.

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In 1933, alongside

Eugenio González Rojas Eugenio González Rojas (born January 23, 1903 – August 28, 1976) was a Chilean philosopher, scholar, politician and writer. He was a founding member of the Chilean Socialist Party as well as its theoretician. He has been commonly cited as a ...

, with whom showed his anarchist affiliation, founded the collective Acción Revolucionaria Socialista (ARS). Then, this association and another three merged into the current Socialist Party of Chile in April 1933, so that he was a founder member next to

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, Salvador Allende and González Rojas. He was the organizer of the Left Block, a political coalition which reunited left-wing political forces other with the exception of the

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(PC) or the centrist Radical Party (PR). Nevertheless, the rising of both President Arturo Alessandri Palma's liberal-conservative right and

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(MNSCh, «nacis») forced him to seal an alliance with the PC and the PR. That way, it was established Popular Front of Chile, whose leader was

, who triumphed the

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over liberal-manchesterian economist Gustavo Ross Santa María. In 1948, he was part of the Chilean Anticommunist Action board. After 1973 coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet, his nephew Eric suffered persecution under

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. He died in 1976 away from the political life as did his friend González Rojas. A year later, Raúl Ampuero made a tribute entitled «Óscar Schnake and Eugenio González: Not only history».

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