Camila Vallejo

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Camila Vallejo (2012)
Official portrait (2014)

Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling / kaˈmila anˈtonja amaˈɾanta βaˈʝexo ˈdaʊlɪŋ / (born April 28, 1988 in Santiago ) is a politician of the Communist Party of Chile . She was the leader of the student movement in Chile and a geography student at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad de Chile (German: University of Chile). She is a member of the Central Committee of the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile (Youth Association of the Partido Comunista de Chile). Camila Vallejo was President of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh for short, Student Association of the University of Chile) in 2010 and 2011 . She was also one of the spokespersons for the Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech, Association of Students of Traditional Universities in Chile) during the student protests in 2011. Since November 2013, she has been a member of the Chilean Parliament.

Life

Camila Vallejo is the daughter of Reinaldo Vallejo and Mariela Dowling. Both were members of the Communist Party of Chile in the 1970s. It is not confessional .

Camila Vallejo grew up in Macul and La Florida, both districts of Santiago de Chile , and attended the Colegio Raimapu , a private school in La Florida. In 2006 she enrolled at the Universidad de Chile to study geography. In 2007 she became a member of the Youth Association of the Communist Party of Chile. In 2008 she became advisor to the FECh, of which she was president from November 2010 to November 2011. She was the second woman in this office after Marisol Prado (1997-1998).

In 2011, Vallejo aroused public interest as a spokeswoman and leader of the Chilean student protests (along with Giorgio Jackson, student leader of the Student Union of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile , and Camilo Ballesteros, student leader of the Student Union of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile ). Vallejo has already been built up by some media as the opponent of Chile's President Sebastián Piñera . The British newspaper The Guardian found that since Subcomandante Marcos no rebel leader had charmed Latin America like Vallejo.

In August 2011, the Chilean Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia) placed Vallejo under police protection for threatening her death.

Since the end of 2011 she has been in a relationship with Julio César Sarmiento Machado (born January 29, 1983, Santa Clara , Cuba ), a senior member of the Communist Youth of Chile and a medical student. Vallejo graduated with honors ( distinción máxima ) in July 2013 . On October 6, 2013, she gave birth to their daughter.

2011 student elections

At the end of 2011, she was defeated by the more radical opponent Gabriel Boric in the student elections with a narrow difference of 189 list votes. In the elections of the FECh, every student can vote on a candidate (personal vote) or on a list (list vote). Camila Vallejo received 1868 personal votes, 550 more than the 1,318 votes for Gabriel Boric. Only the votes on the list are decisive for the office of President. Camila Vallejo was elected Vice President for a term from December 2011 to November 2012.

Spokeswoman for Confech

In addition to her position as chairwoman of the student union of the University of Chile, Camila Vallejo is also one of the spokespersons (Vocera de la Confech) of the Confederacíon de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech), an umbrella organization for all students at the universities that have a student body elected by students. The organization is led by the speakers and is one of the leading forces in the student protests in Chile 2011–2012 .

Election to the House of Representatives 2013

In November 2013, Vallejo was elected as a member of parliament in the Chilean parliamentary elections.

popularity

According to a survey conducted by a private, non-profit organization in early October 2011, Camila Vallejo is the Chilean woman most admired by Chilean youth. In a survey carried out by Radio Cooperativa and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in early December, Camila Vallejo was voted Person of the Year 2011 in Chile. The American magazine Time had Camila Vallejo in the list of the most important personalities of the year 2011. The readers of the British Guardian voted Camila Vallejo the person of the year 2011. According to the Spanish newspaper El País Vallejo was on the list of 100 Ibero-American personalities of the year 2011. She is traded as the Gladys Marín of the 21st century, who was a well-known communist politician and general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile.

In August 2013, the American musician Conor Oberst and his emocore band Desaparecidos published a homage to Camila Vallejo under the title Te Amo Camila Vallejo .

criticism

Camila Vallejo was criticized for her trip to Cuba for the world meeting of communist youth in early April 2012. There she met Fidel Castro and praised communist rule on the island, but refused to meet dissidents. After visiting Fidel Castro, she said literally: What Fidel Castro says, reflects on and sets out to us is a description of the way for us . She received criticism from dissidents and Cubans in exile living in Cuba, but also from the Chilean opposition.

Web links

Commons : Camila Vallejo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis Andres Henao: Camila Vallejo, Leader Of Chile's Student Movement, Backs Michelle Bachelet. ( Memento of May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Huffington Post , November 21, 2013 (English).
  2. ↑ Sofía Aldea: Compañera Camila ( Spanish ) In: paula.cl . May 16, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  3. ^ A b Gerhard Dilger: Subcomandante Camila. In: the daily newspaper . August 28, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011 .
  4. ^ A b Jonathan Franklin : Chile's Commander Camila, the student who can shut down a city. In: The Guardian . August 24, 2011, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  5. ^ Leslie Ayala: Corte Suprema acoge amparo a favor de Camila Vallejo y ordena rondas policiales ( Spanish ) Emol. August 23, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ La historia de amor y política entre Camila Vallejo y Julio Sarmiento ( Spanish ) Publimetro.cl. April 12, 2012. Archived from the original on November 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 17, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.publimetro.cl
  7. ↑ Camila Vallejo se tituló de geógrafa con distinción máxima ( Spanish ) Nación.cl. July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved on November 17, 2013.
  8. ↑ Julio Sarmiento es el padre del hijo que espera Camilo Vallejo ( Spanish ) Nación.cl. April 11, 2012. Archived from the original on April 17, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  9. ↑ Nació bebé de Camila Vallejo: Fue niña y pesó 3 kilos 355 gramos ( Spanish ) Emol.com. October 6, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  10. ↑ Benedikt Peters: Chile's student movement is facing radicalization. In: The time . December 9, 2011, accessed February 2, 2012 .
  11. ^ Resultados Elecciones FECH. ( Spanish ) In: Partido Comunista de Chile . December 7, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  12. ^ Jonathan Franklin: Camila Vallejo, student leader, gets ready for a seat in Chilean congress. In: The Guardian , November 18, 2013 (English).
  13. ↑ La mujer chilena mas admirada por las adolescentes ( Spanish ) In: El Mostrador . October 5, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  14. ↑ Camila Vallejo fue elegida en Chile como la figura del año ( Spanish ) In: Radio Cooperativa . December 13, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  15. ↑ Tim Padgett: Chile's Student Protesters ( English ) In: Time . December 14, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  16. ↑ Nahuel Lopez : The Face of Communism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2012 (interview).
  17. ↑ "The Guardian" readers vote Chile's student leader "Person of the Year" In: Reuters , December 20, 2011 (video, 1:19 min., English)
  18. ↑ Cien personajes del año ( Spanish ) In: El País . December 20, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  19. ↑ Francisco Vidal and Camila Vallejo: “Es la Gladys Marín del Siglo XXI” ( Spanish ) In: El Dínamo . August 23, 2012. Archived from the original on November 21, 2011. Retrieved on November 17, 2013.
  20. ↑ Desaparecidos Shout Out Communists' Daughter on Fiery New Single ( English ) In: Spin . August 2, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
  21. ^ "Para nosotros lo que Fidel Castro diga, reflexione, lo que nos señale, es como una carta de ruta" In: La Tercera , April 5, 2012 (Spanish).
  22. ^ Yoani Sánchez : La rebelde Camila Vallejo obedeció al régimen cubano. In: El Comercio , April 9, 2012 (Spanish).
  23. ↑ Yoani Sánchez : The Cuba Camila Vallejo Didn't Want to See. In: Huffington Post , April 8, 2012.
  24. ↑ Yoani Sánchez : La Cuba que Camila Vallejo no quiso ver. In: La Tercera , April 7, 2012 (Spanish).
  25. ↑ Visita de Vallejo mueve las aguas en la disidencia cubana. ( Memento of June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: La Nación , April 9, 2012 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Vallejo, Camila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dowling, Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean activist of the student movement 2011
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago , Chile