Biography of chilean president 1964-70
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Eduardo Frei Montalva
President of Chile From to
This article is about the Chilean president. For the Antarctic research station named after him, see Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva.
Not to be confused with his son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.
In this Chilean name, the first or paternal surname is Frei and the second or maternal family name is Montalva.
Eduardo Nicanor Frei MontalvaOMCh (Spanish pronunciation:[eˈðwaɾðofɾejmonˈtalβa]; 16 January &#; 22 January ) was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 27th president of Chile from to His eldest son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, also became president of Chile (–).
Frei's Christian Democratic Party supported the Armed Forces intervention to remove his successor Salvador Allende from office in , after the Chamber of Deputies, on 22 August , accused Allende of violating the Constitution. He was later a vocal opponent of the Augusto Pinochet regime. On 22 January , Frei died in Santiago, Chile, following surgery. Assassination was suspected by some but has never been proven. On 18 August , the Supreme Court ruled out the assassination charges and declared innoc
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Eduardo Frei Montalva
Eduardo Frei Montalva () was president of Chile and one of the most widely known and respected spokesmen for democratic reform in Latin America.
Eduardo Frei was born into a middle-class family in Santiago on January 16, His father was a Swiss immigrant, his mother, Chilean. Growing up, he was educated in Catholic elementary and secondary schools. In he entered Santiago's Catholic University to study law, graduating near the top of his class in Frei was a Chilean delegate in to the Congress of University Youth, a Catholic conference in Rome, a pivotal moment in Frei's life, for during this gathering he met Pope Pius XI; Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, who was later to become Pope Pius XII; and French social philosopher Jacques Maritain. These three men had a profound impact on the young Frei's political philosophy.
Deeply religious and increasingly drawn to politics, Frei became disenchanted with the orientation of the traditional representative of Chilean Catholic thought, the Conservative party. The Conservatives stubbornly resisted change, Frei believed, and were losing strength to new parties that postulated solutions to social problems. Active in the youth group of the party and editor of a newspaper in northern Chile, Frei and fellow youth group m
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