Alfonso Marquez de la Plata

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Alfonso Marquez de la Plata (1983)

Alfonso Marquez de la Plata Yrarrázaval (born July 19, 1933 in Santiago de Chile ; † April 22, 2014 ibid) was a Chilean entrepreneur and politician who held several ministerial offices during the presidency of Augusto Pinochet .

Life

Agricultural engineer and agricultural official

Márquez de la Plata, son of the inventor, archaeologist and historian Fernando Márquez de la Plata Echenique , began his education in 1939 at a school run by the Marist School Brothers in Buenos Aires , where the family moved at the beginning of the Second World War . After a subsequent visit to the Colegio Saint George in Vitacura operated by the Congregation of the Holy Cross , he began to study agricultural sciences in 1950 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile, which he graduated as an agricultural engineer in 1954.

Márquez de la Plata then worked as an agricultural engineer in agriculture and forestry, before shortly afterwards he founded the Caren company in Mostazal . Between 1956 and 1969 he was a founding member of the Association of Agricultural Engineers and Veterinarians (Asociación de Ingenieros Agrónomos y Veterinarios) in Rancagua and the Farmers Association (Cooperativa de Agricultores) in the Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins .

In 1968 he was first elected director of the National Agricultural Society SNA (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura) and was elected Vice President in 1969 and President of this society in April 1973. In these functions, in cooperation with other bodies of the CPC (Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio), he promoted the establishment of the first development bank and the first agricultural bank in Chile. In 1977 he was one of the founders of the Association for Social Development in the Agricultural Sector (Corporación de Desarrollo Social del Sector Rural) .

Minister, entrepreneur and economic manager

On April 20, 1978, Márquez de la Plata, who had been President of the Banco de Santiago since 1977, was appointed Minister of Agriculture (Ministro de Agricultura) by President Augusto Pinochet as successor to Mario Mc-Kay and held this position until he was succeeded by José Luis Toro on May 29, 1980.

After leaving the government, he was director of the Banco de Crédito e Inversiones , the pension insurance company Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida (AFP Provida) and the beverage manufacturer Compañía de las Cervecerías Unidas between 1981 and 1983 .

President Pinochet called him back into government on August 10, 1983, as the successor to Ramón Suárez González as Secretary General of the Government (Ministro Secretaría General de Gobierno de Chile) with ministerial rank . He held this office until he was replaced by Francisco Javier Cuadra on November 6, 1984. During this time, he also served as interim minister of the interior from August 26 to September 3, 1983 and on April 14, 1984.

Subsequently, on November 6, 1984, Márquez de la Plata himself took over the post of Minister for Labor and Social Welfare (Ministro de Trabajo y Previsión Social) in the Pinochet government from Hugo Gálvez and held this post until his replacement by Guillermo Arthur on May 21 October 1988.

He was then chairman of the National Television Council CNTV (Consejo Nacional de Televisión de Chile) between 1989 and June 1992 and honorary director of the SNA from 2005 to 2007.

Márquez de la Plata, whose maternal great-cousin was the poet Vicente Huidobro , also wrote several books on political topics and contemporary Chilean history.

Publications

  • El salto al futuro , 1992
  • El gobierno ideal , 1993
  • Mirando al futuro , 1998
  • Una persecución vergonzosa , 2000
  • El peligro totalitario , 2002
  • Cinco presidentes y el poder , 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Marquez de la Plata, Alfonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marquez de la Plata Yrarrázaval, Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2014
Place of death Santiago de Chile