Sergio Onofre Jarpa

Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Minister of the Interior
	In office; 10 August 1983 – 12 February 1985
President	Augusto Pinochet
Preceded by	Enrique Montero Marx
Succeeded by	Ricardo García Rodríguez
Member of the Senate
	In office; 15 May 1973 – 21 September 1973
Constituency	LIII
	In office; 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1994
Constituency	LV
Personal details
Born	8 March 1921; Rengo, Chile
Died	19 April 2020 (aged 99); Las Condes
Nationality	Chilean
Political party	Agrarian Labor Party; (1950-1958); National Action; (1963-1966); National Party; (1966-1973); National Labour Front; (1985-1987); National Renewal; (1987-1997)
Spouse(s)	Silvia Moreno Andwandter (1950s-1978; her death)
Domestic partner	Mina Huerta Dunsmore (1980s-present)
Relations	Onofre Jarpa (ancestor)
Children	Sergio Jr.,; Jorge,; Francisco,; Isabel
Parents	Francisco Javier Jarpa Santa Cruz (father); Raquel Reyes Corona (mother)
Alma mater	University of Chile
Occupation	Diplomat, farmer
Awards	Premio al Mérito Geopolítico (1991)

Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean politician who served as a member of the cabinet during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Biography

Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture at the University of Chile.[1] He first became involved in politics in the 1950s, initially with the youth movement of the Agrarian Labor Party before becoming involved in the National Action with Jorge Prat.[1] He was instrumental in the formation of the National Party in 1966 and served as leader of the opposition to the left-wing government and, from 1971, editor of the anti-socialist journal Tribuna.[1]

Elected to the Senate of Chile in the 1973 election, Jarpa became a diplomat following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, serving as a delegate to the United Nations and before becoming ambassador to Colombia (1976-1978) and then Argentina (1978-1983).[1] Jarpa was appointed Minister of the Interior in 1983 with special orders to open dialogue with the opposition, which had organised under the name Democratic Alliance. This policy of appeasement was quickly abandoned by Pinochet however.[2] He held the post until 1985.[1] He formed his own political movement, the National Labour Front (Frente Nacional del Trabajo), in 1985 and this group was one of the three that formed National Renewal two years later.[1] He returned to the Senate as a representative of this new party in 1990.[1]

Alongside his political career Jarpa was a noted author on socio-political topics and he was awarded the Premio al Mérito Geopolítico by the Chilean Institute of Geopolitics in 1991.[1]

He died on 19 April 2020 due to COVID-19.[3]

References

Library of the Chilean National Congress Biography
Thomas C. Wright & Rody Zunate Oniga, "Chilean Political Exile", Latin American Perspectives, 2007 34: 44
"Entrega de certificados confirman que Sergio Onofre Jarpa murió producto del Covid-19". ADN Radio (in Spanish). 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

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[Bio-1] Library of the Chilean National Congress Biography

[2] Thomas C. Wright & Rody Zunate Oniga, "Chilean Political Exile", Latin American Perspectives, 2007 34: 44

[3] "Entrega de certificados confirman que Sergio Onofre Jarpa murió producto del Covid-19". ADN Radio (in Spanish). 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.