Juan José Santa Cruz López (born 26 April 1959) is a Chilean lawyer, businessman and politician. In 2010, he was a founding member of

El Dínamo ''El Dínamo'' is a Chilean online newspaper founded in 2010. In late 2009, Sebastián Sichel ―then Sebastián Iglesias― presented the communicational project that would end up being ''El Dínamo''. Later, the newspaper was supported by then C ...

newspaper alongside

Sebastián Sichel Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born 30 July 1977) is a Chilean lawyer, professor, ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the () from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social ...

(then Sebastián Iglesias).

Biography

He was born within the marriage between Andrés Santa Cruz Serrano and Mercedes López Latorre, granddaughter of Admiral

Juan José Latorre Juan José Latorre Benavente (Santiago; March 24, 1846 – July 9, 1912) Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos. Early life Son of Elías Latorre and of Nicomedia Benav ...

, Chilean hero during the

War of the Pacific The War of the Pacific ( es, link=no, Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War ( es, link=no, Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought ...

(1879–1884). Despite his family was of

christian-democratic Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...

tendencies, his brother Andrés was a collaborator of

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 ...

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 ...

(1973–1990). Nevertheless, Juan José opposed the military regime voting against the 1980 Constitution of Chile. On 5 April 2018, he refused being President of

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 several ...

(TVN) board. Then, on 14 June, he broke up with

Citizens Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...

—his party— after differences with

Andrés Velasco Andrés Velasco Brañes (; born August 30, 1960) is a Chilean economist and professor who served as Minister of Finance (Chile), Minister of Finance in the first government of President of Chile, President Michelle Bachelet from March 2006 to Marc ...

. Since December 2020, it made massively known his work by

campaign.

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