Edmundo Salinas
Edmundo Salinas Clavería | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 May 1969 – 15 May 1973 | |
| Constituency | 21st Departamental Group |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 January 1929 |
| Died | 1977 |
| Party | Communist Party of Chile |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Pacheco |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Physician |
Edmundo Salinas Clavería (1929–1977) was a Chilean physician and politician, member of the Communist Party of Chile.[1]
He served as Deputy for the 21st Departamental Group ―Temuco, Lautaro, Imperial, Pitrufquén and Villarrica― during the XLVI Legislative Period (1969–1973).[1]
Early life
He was born in Santiago on 25 January 1929, the son of Edmundo Salinas Bezares and Violeta Clavería Carvajal.[1] He studied medicine at the University of Chile, graduating as a surgeon in 1955.[1]
Career
Professionally, Salinas worked as a physician at the Military Hospital of Santiago, the State Railways, the National Health Service, and as a neurosurgeon at the Hospital Regional de Temuco.[1]
He entered politics as a member of the Communist Party of Chile, and was elected Deputy in the 1969 elections. In Congress, he sat on the Permanent Commissions of Public Health and Agriculture and Colonization.[1]
Exile and death
Following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Salinas went into exile in the German Democratic Republic, where he died in 1977.[1]