Edmundo Salinas

Edmundo Salinas Clavería
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 May 1969 – 15 May 1973
Constituency21st Departamental Group
Personal details
Born(1929-01-25)25 January 1929
Died1977
PartyCommunist Party of Chile
SpouseElizabeth Pacheco
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Chile
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionPhysician

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Reseña Biográfica Parlamentaria: Edmundo Salinas Clavería". Political History. Library of the National Congress of Chile. Retrieved 12 September 2025.