Luciano Vásquez Muruaga

Luciano Vásquez Muruaga (26 April 1926 – 18 October 2010) was a Chilean journalist and politician affiliated with the National Party.

He served as Deputy for the Seventh Departmental Group, Second District (Talagante) in 1973. His mandate was cut short by the coup d’état that dissolved Congress.

Vásquez also worked throughout his life in journalism. He served as director of the newspapers La Gaceta de Arica, El Cronista, and La Nación (Santiago); as editor of El Mercurio (Santiago) and deputy director of El Mercurio de Valparaíso; and as director of Radio Agricultura (Santiago). He was also a columnist for Las Últimas Noticias and La Tercera.

Luciano Vásquez Muruaga was born in Santiago on 26 April 1926, the son of José Dolores Vásquez Rodríguez and Angelina Muruaga. He married Adriana Echeverría, with whom he had three children; he later married journalist Raquel Cordero Arellano, with whom he had one child.

He taught Public Relations and Introduction to Journalism at the Universidad Andrés Bello and News Journalism at the Universidad Las Condes.

A member of the National Party, in March 1973 he was elected deputy for the Seventh Departmental Group, Second District (Talagante) and joined the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations. His term was cut short by the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which dissolved the National Congress.

In 1973 he was appointed cultural press attaché at the Embassy of Chile in Sweden, a post he held until 1976; between 1984 and 1988 he held the same position in Paraguay. He served as director of the Division of Social Communication (DINACOS) between 15 February and 10 November 1979.

In 1989 he ran for deputy for District 22 (Santiago) on the National Party list, but was not elected.

He died in Santiago on 18 October 2010.^[1]

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