Eduardo Sepúlveda Muñoz

Eduardo Julio Magno Sepúlveda Muñoz (1 January 1930 – 24 March 2020) was a Chilean lawyer, journalist, professor and politician.

He served as Deputy for the 6th Departamental Group (Valparaíso and Quillota, later Valparaíso, Quillota and Easter Island), from 1965 to 1973.

Sepúlveda was born in Tocopilla on 1 January 1930, the son of Eduardo Sepúlveda Whittle and Dominga Muñoz Leiva. He married Marta Viera Sánchez and they had five children.

He studied at the Colegio San Luis in Antofagasta, the Liceo de Iquique, the Salesian school of Valparaíso, the Seminary of La Serena and the Co-Educational High School of Arica. He later entered the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and subsequently the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, where he graduated in law in 1958 with a thesis on “Security measures in Criminal Law.” He also attended special journalism courses at the University of Chile and pursued studies in cooperativism in Israel.

Sepúlveda combined his legal career with journalism and teaching. He taught labor law at the Technical Institute of the Catholic University of Valparaíso and worked as secretary and judge at the Second Police Court of Valparaíso. He was also pro-secretary general and director of UCV Televisión between 1958 and 1962. Earlier, he had created the newspaper Adelante, official organ of the Federation of Catholic University Students, where he was chief editor from 1950 to 1953. He worked as a correspondent for the Sociedad de Publicaciones El Tarapacá of Iquique (1946–1948) and directed the radio program “Aquí está la UC” (1951–1952).

He actively promoted university welfare initiatives. In 1950, he helped establish the first Student Welfare Department at the Catholic University of Santiago and led the Pensionado Universitario “Monseñor Carlos Casanueva.”

As a student leader, he was vice-president of the Catholic University Students’ Federation (FEUC), president of the Law Students’ Center at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, and a delegate to the National Confederation of University Students.

He joined the Falange Nacional in 1947 and later became a member of the Christian Democratic Party in 1957, where he organized the Congress of Christian Democratic Professionals and served as head of the professionals section in Valparaíso (1960–1964).

In the 1965 elections, he was elected Deputy for the 6th Departamental Group (Valparaíso and Quillota) for the 1965–1969 term. He served on the Permanent Commission of Economy and Trade.

In the 1969 elections, he was re-elected Deputy for the same 6th Departamental Group, now comprising Valparaíso, Quillota and Easter Island, for the 1969–1973 term. He sat on the Permanent Commission of Economy, Development and Reconstruction.

He did not win re-election in the 1973 elections.

Sepúlveda died in La Serena on 24 March 2020.^[1][2]

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