Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek (born 12 March 1964) is a Chilean journalist, politician and writer, born in

Rancagua Rancagua () is a city and commune in central Chile and part of the Rancagua conurbation. It is the capital of the Cachapoal Province and of the O'Higgins Region, located south of the national capital of Santiago. It was originally named Santa ...

. Since 11 March 2022, he has served as Chile's

Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

. Mayor of Rancagua from 1992 to 1996, and

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from 2002 to 2010. His brother Darío also was mayor of

. Since January 2021, he is vice-president of the

Social Green Regionalist Federation The Social Green Regionalist Federation ( es, Federación Regionalista Verde Social, FREVS) is a Chilean political party. It was founded on January 14, 2017 after the union of the regionalist parties Regional and Popular Front ( es, Frente Regio ...

Works

* ''Fragmentos de una generación'' (1987) * ''Cómo ganarle a la rabia'' (1988) * ''Matilde espera carta de Alemania'' (1994) * '' Pichilemu Blues'' (1996) * ''La fecundidad de un gobierno local'' (1997) * ''Alegato histórico regionalista'' (1999) * ''El fantasma federal en Chile: la potencia de la reforma regional'' (2003) * ''Soborno sour'' (2005) * ''La voz terrible: Infante y el valdiviano federal'' (2008) * ''Nahual Maya: los días con sentido'' (2012) * ''Dios, Marx... y el MAPU'' (2014)

References

External links

Website of Esteban Valenzuela
1964 births Living people People from Rancagua Chilean male writers Chilean journalists Male journalists Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Valencia alumni Instituto O'Higgins de Rancagua alumni Mayors of places in Chile Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile Party for Democracy (Chile) politicians Social Green Regionalist Federation politicians Ministers of Agriculture of Chile {{Chile-writer-stub