René Rojas Galdames (January 22, 1919 – October 22, 1988) was a

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an lawyer and diplomat. He was born on January 22, 1919, and died on October 22, 1988. He married Margarita Zamora Callejas with whom he had 8 children.

Education and career

Rojas Galdames served as Attorney General and as secretary to the President of the Republic. He entered the diplomatic service in 1946 and in 1950 obtained a Master in Public Administration degree at the

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at Princeton University. He was a founding member of the Third Company of the La Cisterna Fire Department of (May 21, 1943).

Diplomatic career

During his diplomatic career Rojas Galdames served as secretary to the embassies of Chile in

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(1951),

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(1953),

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(1954), UK (1956-1961) and as Counselor at the Embassy of Chile in

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(1962-1967). He was Director of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1970 and 1973 he was Chile's ambassador to the Vatican and between 1973 and 1978 was Chile's ambassador to

, and later served as Chile's ambassador to

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from 1978 to 1980. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile in two periods, at very conflicting times in Chile's history, during 1980-1981 and 1982–1983. During the first period he experienced the Beagle crisis and in the second the

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, in which Chile was involved.

References

External links

El abogado y la diplomacia (The lawyer and diplomacy) - article written by René Rojas Galdames in 1985
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rojas Galdames, Rene Foreign ministers of Chile 1919 births 1988 deaths Ambassadors of Chile to Argentina Ambassadors of Chile to Spain Ambassadors of Chile to the Holy See Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic 20th-century Chilean lawyers