Carlos Cuadrado Prats
Carlos Cuadrado Prats | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2026 | |
| Constituency | 9th District |
| Mayor of Huechuraba | |
| In office 6 December 2012 – 6 December 2024 | |
| Councilman of Huechuraba | |
| In office 6 December 2008 – 6 December 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1965 Talca, Chile |
| Party | Party for Democracy |
| Occupation | Politician |
Carlos César Luis Cuadrado Prats[1] (born 24 January 1965) is a Chilean journalist and politician. Between 2012 and 2024 he served as mayor of Huechuraba.
Between 2008 and 2012 he served as a municipal councillor of the same commune. A member of the Party for Democracy (PPD), he is the son of the first mayor of Huechuraba, Sofía Prats Cuthbert (1991–2000), and grandson of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, Carlos Prats (1970–1973).[2]
Biography
He was born at the Hospital Regional de Talca (HRT), the son of Sofía Ester Prats Cuthbert (the first mayor of Huechuraba) and Isidoro Cuadrado. He is the grandson of General Carlos Prats, former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, who was assassinated together with his wife by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), reportedly in the context of Operation Condor.[2]
He is married to Natalia Pérez Vega, with whom he has two children.
Professional career
He completed his primary education in Molina until the second grade. He finished his primary and secondary education at the Alliance Française schools in Curicó, Santiago, and Concepción. He began his university studies with three years at the Faculty of Law of the University of Concepción. During that period he was a leader and member of the Sebastián Acevedo Movement Against Torture.[2]
In the late 1980s he moved to Santiago, where he studied the bachelor's programme in social sciences with a specialization in history, and later journalism and a degree in communication studies. Politically, during those years he joined the recently founded Party for Democracy (PPD).[2]
After qualifying as a journalist, he obtained a master's degree in Social Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain.[2]
In the early 2000s he focused his professional career on academia, teaching courses such as Propaganda and Political Communication, Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns, Political Propaganda, and Introduction to Communication at the Diego Portales University, University of La República, and UNIACC.[2]
Political career
In 2001 he travelled to Ottawa to work at the Embassy of Chile in Canada as Scientific Attaché and Adviser for Political, Cultural and Press Affairs. In that role he served as the official delegate of the Government of Chile during visits by President Ricardo Lagos to Canada in 2001 and 2003, and was also responsible for coordinating Chilean press missions.[2]
Between 2001 and 2004 he served as an official delegate of the Chilean government to several international meetings, including the Conference of Ministers of Labour of the Americas (2001), the Summit of the Americas (2001), the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption meeting (2002), the World Youth Meeting (2002), the Meeting of Commanders-in-Chief of the Americas (2003), and an OECD meeting on education (2004).[2]
Upon returning to Chile in 2005 he became deputy director of the Department of International Relations of the Santiago Metropolitan Regional Government. He also resumed his academic work as a professor at the School of Journalism of UNIACC University and as a visiting professor in the master's programme in Social Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[2]
Between 2008 and 2012 he served as a municipal councillor of Huechuraba, obtaining nearly 15% of the vote in the 2008 Chilean municipal election.[2]
At the same time, between 2009 and 2010, he served as director of the Department of International Relations of the Santiago Metropolitan Regional Government (GRMS). In 2010 he completed a diploma in Political and Strategic Studies at the Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos (ANEPE) and later obtained a master's degree in Political Science, Security and Defence from the same institution.[2]
In the 2012 Chilean municipal election he was elected mayor of Huechuraba with 47% of the vote. In 2016 he was re-elected mayor of the commune with more than 65% of the vote in the 2016 Chilean municipal election.
On 15 November 2024 he resigned as mayor of Huechuraba in order to run as a candidate in the 2025 Chilean general election.[3]
In those elections he was elected as a deputy.[4]
References
- ^ "Certificado de Nacimiento, Servicio de Registro Civil". www.registrocivil.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Municipalidad de Huechuraba: El Alcalde". huechuraba.cl. 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ Rubio, Paz (11 November 2024). "Carlos Cuadrado Prats renuncia a la alcaldía de Huechuraba para competir en las elecciones de 2025". La Tercera. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "Resultados de las Elecciones Presidenciales y Parlamentarias 2025". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 November 2025.