Bernardo Arturo de la Maza Bañados (born 3 January 1946) is a
Chilean journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
who was elected as a member of the
Chilean Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention () was the constituent body of the Republic of Chile in charge of drafting a new Political Constitution of the Republic after the approval of the national plebiscite held in October 2020. Its creation and regulatio ...
.
On 28 October 2021, he resigned to
Chile Vamos
(Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), Nationa ...
, centre-right coalition he represented in the Convention.
He worked in
Televisión Nacional de Chile
Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is a Chilean public service broadcaster. It was founded by order of President Eduardo Frei Montalva and it was launched nationwide on 18 September 1969. Since then, the company has been reorganized on sever ...
from 1970s to 2000s. About his early years there ―occurred during
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...
's
dictatorship
A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, which holds governmental powers with few to no limitations on them. The leader of a dictatorship is called a dictator. Politics in a dictatorship are ...
― he stated at
Mentiras Verdaderas Mentiras Verdaderas is a Chilean talk show which has gained relevance for its political interviews.
From 2015 to 2018, its animator was Ignacio Franzani. Similarly, in 2016, the program had a space dedicated to the history called ''Cultura Verdade ...
that he was a «victim» of the TV montages of the military regime, in which he participed as communicator of the
Informe especial program.
Biography
TV career
In 2009, he joined
Megavisión
Red Televisiva Megavisión (MEGA) is a Chilean private television network headquartered in Santiago. It currently airs on digital frequency channel 27 ( ISDB-Tb) for HDTV. In 2012, ownership of Mega channel was transferred from Claro Group to B ...
.
See also
*
Informe Especial
*
List of members of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
References
External links
Official Website
Living people
1946 births
Chilean journalists
Chilean television presenters
Chilean television personalities
21st-century Chilean politicians
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Members of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
People from Santiago
Chilean political commentators
{{Chile-politician-stub