René Rojas Galdames

René Rojas Galdames (1919–1988) was a Chilean lawyer and diplomat. He was born in 1919 and died on October 22, 1988. He married Margarita Zamora Callejas with whom he had 8 children.

René Rojas Galdames
Minister of International Relations, Chile
In office
March 29, 1980 – February 14, 1983
PresidentAugusto Pinochet Ugarte
Preceded byHernán Cubillos Sallato
ConstituencyChile
Personal details
Born1919
 Chile, Chile
DiedOctober 22, 1988
 Chile Santiago, Chile
CitizenshipChile
NationalityChilean
Spouse(s)Margarita Callejas Zamora
OccupationLawyer

Education and career

Rojas Galdames served as Attorney General and as secretary to the President of the Republic. He entered the diplomatic service in 1946 and in 1950 obtained a Master in Public Administration degree at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

He was a founding member of the Third Company of the La Cisterna Fire Department of (May 21, 1943).

Diplomatic career

During his diplomatic career Rojas Galdames served as secretary to the embassies of Chile in Argentina (1951), Turkey (1953), Colombia (1954), UK (1956-1961) and as Counselor at the Embassy of Chile in Italy (1962-1967).

He was Director of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Between 1970 and 1973 he was Chile's ambassador to the Vatican and between 1973 and 1978 was Chile's ambassador to Argentina, and later served as Chile's ambassador to Spain from 1978 to 1980.

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile in two periods, at very conflicting times in Chile's history, during 1980-1981 and 1982-1983. During the first period he experienced the Beagle crisis and in the second the Falklands War, in which Chile was involved.

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