María Eugenia Oyarzún Iglesias (born 1 June 1936) is a

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a journalist, writer, and former diplomat.

Biography

Oyarzún is married to Fernando Errázuriz Guzmán, with whom she has children. During the

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of General

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer and politician who was the dictator of Military dictatorship of Chile, Chile from 1973 to 1990. From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader ...

, Oyarzún occupied the ''de facto'' position of mayor of Santiago from 1 June 1975 to 1 June 1976. She was ambassador of the Government of Chile to the

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. She was the first woman to preside over the Political Council of that entity in October and December 1977. Thanks to her close relationship with Pinochet, she was able to conduct interviews of him for various media, which would later be published in several books during the 1990s. Oyarzún worked for the Santiago daily ''

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'' for 46 years, and was director of the journalism schools of the

University of Chile The University of Chile () is a public university, public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

and UNIACC.

Works

* ''Augusto Pinochet: diálogos con su historia. Conversaciones inéditas'' (Editorial Sudamericana, 1999) * ''Augusto Pinochet: "Una visión del hombre"'' (Editorial Bauhaus, 1995)

Awards

* 1965 – Lenka Franulic Award from the * 1996 – Carmen Puelma Award from the Chilean Safety Association

References

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