Carlos José Ramón Echazarreta Iñiguez (born 11 November 1934) was the 27th and 30th

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of the commune of

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, office which he held between May 1963 and May 1967, and through the early months of the

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military regime, between September and November 1973. In 1967 he was succeeded by

Carlos Rojas Pavez Carlos Ignacio Rojas Pavez (16 October 1906 – 23 August 1994) was the 28th Mayor of Pichilemu, Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between May 1967 and May 1971. For almost three decades, Rojas Pavez worked as the municip ...

, and in 1973 he was succeeded by Mario Urrutia Carrasco. Echazarreta also was a ''regidor'' of Pichilemu for several terms between 1959 and 1973.

Biography

Carlos Echazarreta Iñíguez was born on 11 November 1934 in Recoleta,

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, to

Carlos Echazarreta Larraín Carlos Echazarreta Larraín was the 21st Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, Chile between May 1947 and May 1950. He was succeeded by Sergio Morales Retamal. Echazarreta also was a ''regidor'' of Pichilemu for several terms. Political career Car ...

—21st Mayor of Pichilemu—and María Iñíguez Infante. Like his father, Carlos José Ramón became a farmer. He completed his secondary studies at Colegio San Ignacio.

Political career

In 1959, Echazarreta Iñiguez was elected ''regidor'' of the commune of

, representing the

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, for a four-year term, in which he shared office with Héctor Greene Valverde, Alberto Araneda Concha, and

Sergio Morales Retamal Sergio Morales Retamal was the 22nd and 24th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he first held between May 1950 and May 1951, and later between May 1953 and May 1956. Morales also held office as ''regidor'' of Pichilemu for two terms. ...

, during the mayorship of Basilio Sánchez Beguiristain. He was elected

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on 19 May 1963; his council was composed by Manuel Córdova Morales, Héctor Greene Valverde, Osvaldo Vidal Vidal, and Washington Saldías Fuentealba. In 1967, now as a Christian Democrat, he was elected ''regidor'' for the mayorship of

, and shared office with Washington Saldías Fuentealba, Flavio Álvarez Jorquera, and Mario Moraga Cáceres. Once again, he was re-elected ''regidor'' of Pichilemu in 1971 for the 1971–75 term, which was interrupted by the coup d'état of

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in 1973. During that term, Echazarreta shared the ''regidor'' office with Osvaldo Vidal Vidal, Jorge Díaz García, and Francisco Lorca Espinoza, through the mayorship of Washington Saldías Fuentealba. On 29 September 1973, he was appointed by the government junta as mayor of Pichilemu, and held the office until 10 November 1973, when a decreed was made to appoint Mario Urrutia Carrasco in his place. In 2012, he returned to the political scene of Pichilemu by running for

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of Pichilemu for the

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(PRI). In the election, Echazarreta Iñiguez obtained 98 votes (1.37%) out of 7,169, and was not elected.

Other work

Echazarreta Iñiguez was a founding member of the Aerial Club of Pichilemu (''Club Aéreo de Pichilemu'', CAP), of which it was one of its director and, at some point, its president.

Personal life

According to Guillermo de la Cuadra Gormaz's 1982 book ''Familias chilenas'' (''Chilean families''), Carlos Echazarreta Iñiguez married in first nuptials with María Inés Bezanilla Infante; the couple divorced in 1996 and Echazarreta later married Eliana Guzmán Lyon. Echazarreta has had children in his marriages.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Echazarreta Iniguez, Carlos 1934 births Living people People from Santiago Province, Chile Mayors of Pichilemu Chilean people of Basque descent Conservative Party (Chile) politicians Christian Democratic Party (Chile) politicians Independent Regionalist Party politicians