Orlando Antonio Álvarez Hernández (3 January 1935 − 8 December 2013) was a Chilean lawyer, writer, music critic and university professor. Born in

Ovalle Ovalle is a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, founded in 1831 as a settlement. It has a population of more than 113,000 people. The name Ovalle was chosen to honor to Chile's vice-president, José Tomás Ovalle. Ovalle is the capital of the ...

, Álvarez was the minister of the

Supreme Court of Chile The Supreme Court of Chile is the highest court in Chile. It also administers the lower courts in the nation. It is located in the capital Santiago. In the Chilean system, the court lacks the broader power of judicial review—it cannot set bindin ...

from 1998 to 2009 and chairman of the

Electoral Court An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

from 2008 to his death in 2013. Orlando Álvarez died on 8 December 2013, aged 78.Corte Suprema informa fallecimiento de ex ministro Orlando Álvarez Hernández

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